LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Pram Dinghy
CAVE SNATCH NEWS was received at 7.50 p.m. on 22nd September, 1971, that a small boat had been sighted floating close to the cliffs near Bempton.
It appeared to be unmanned. The maroons were fired five minutes later, and at...
Marie Helene
The Lizard-Cadgwith, Cornwall - At 10.45 P-m- °n 29tn June, 1967, it was learned that flares had been sighted 14 miles east south east of the Lizard. This was confirmed by the Norwegian motor vessel Possum. The life-boat, The Duke of...
Mrs. F. M. H. Coleman, M.B.E., J.P., of Clacton
MRS. FLORENCE MABEL HENRIETTA COLEJIAX, M.B.E., J.P., of Clacton, who died on the 25th of August, 1952, at the age of eighty, had been for thirty years a distinguished and most successful worker for the Life-boat...
Category: Obituaries
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Fisherman plucked to safety by D class as night falls T Lifeboats he three crew members of Sunderland's D class inshore lifeboat received a framed letter of thanks from David Acland, the RNLI's Chairman following a service in poor...
An Angling Boat
October hurricane BRONZE MEDAL AT 0559 ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1987 during the height of the infamous hurricane which hit Southern England that day, Thames Coastguard MRSC reported to Coxswain/Mechanic Robin Castle, of Sheerness that red...
The S.S. Flying Enterprise (1)
The Lizard, Cadgwith, and Falmouth, Cornwall.—The S.S. Flying Enterprise, of New York, had been drifting help- lessly in the Atlantic Ocean for over a week, with only her captain on board.
She was listing very heavily. On...
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the ROTAL NATIONAL LIFB-BOAT IHSTITUTIOH and all belonging to them are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains and under the general superintendence of local honorary committees...
Category: Articles
We Ask the Questions
theLifeboat asks Ian Ventham, former head of fundraising and marketing, to reflect on his time at the fundraising helm and we speak to his successor, David Brann, on his vision for the future.Ian What notable changes in fundraising have you...
Category: Articles
Gladina
Torbay, Devon.—At 8.0 on the evening of the 13th of May, 1951, the Brixham coastguard telephoned that a motor cruiser seemed to have broken down about one mile south-west of Berry Head. Later she was seen to get under way, but at 8.42 the...