LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pandora
During a whole E.N.E. gale and heavy snow showers on the evening of the 10th February, signals of distress were ob- served from the schooner Pandora, of Fraserburgh, which was lying at anchor in Scrabster Roads. The crew of the Life-boat...
Dolphin
Runswick, Yorkshire. About noon on the 17th of April, 1960, the weather began to deteriorate, and as the fishing boat Dolphin of Staithes was at sea with a crew of three, it was decided to launch the life-boat The Elliott GUI to escort the...
A Minesweeper's Paravane
PARAVANE TOWED Holy Island, Northumberland. On Tuesday, 9th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an unidentified object had been seen one and a half miles north of Megstone and as the life-boat Gertrude was to...
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Man clinging to cliff A MAN CUT OFF by the tide at Saltwick Nab was reported to the honorary secretary of Whitby lifeboat station by the Coastguard at 1805 on Friday, July 25, 1975. It was high water and in normal circumstances, with a...
Life-Boat Societies Abroad
THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1954 Life-boat Societies Abroad The Royal National Life-boat Institution agreed to a request made at the International Life-boat Conference that it should act as a distributing centre for information which may be of...
Category: Articles
The RNLI and me: Stuart Popham
There are many types of volunteer at the RNLI – including Stuart Popham, who has taken up the role of chair. So who is the man at the helm of the charity?
Chairing a charity is quite a commitment – why did you choose to...
Category: Articles
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
AT the annual meeting of the committee of this Fund, held on the 19th January last, and presided over by Mr. CHARLES G. TURNER, Controller-General of Inland Revenue, it was reported by Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Honorary Secretary, that during...
Category: Meetings
A False Alarm
EARLY in the morning of 22nd August the Selsey Motor Life-boat was launched iu answer to signals from what appeared to be a vessel in distress off Bognor.
She cruised about for three hours, but could find no sign of any...
Category: Articles
For a Change the Endurance of Second Coxswain Peter Leith of Lerwick Is Being Tested
For a change, the endurance of Second Coxswain Peter Leith of Lerwick is being tested other than by hours spent at sea in bad conditions.
Here he is seen on the station's open day during an eight-hour non-stop sponsored... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dungeness, Kent- East Division
The simple, almost stark lines of the the boathouse for the carriage-launched Mersey at Dungeness echo the emptiness of the low-lying shingle peninsula on which it stands. To the south the nuclear power station forms an unmistakable man-made... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs