LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Royal Summer
'THE PLEASURE of your company' is a phrase so often used that we rarely listen to the words themselves; but when members of the royal family honour the lifeboat service with their company everyone knows the days will not only be...
Category: Inaugurations
Man overboard
The launch was one of their toughest – what would the lifeboat volunteers find when they reached the casualty, dragging in the water?
It was a bright and breezy morning on
4 September 2009 when a man and...
Category: Articles
Olga
Trial of patience A MESSAGE from the 1,100-ton coastal tanker Olga, on passage from Liverpool to Bergen, stating she was aground on Bhride Island and that the crew of 10 aboard required assistance, was intercepted by Portpatrick radio...
A Caterpillar Tractor for Launching Life-Boats. By Captain Howard F. J. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-Boats
THE great difficulty in the way of prompt Life-boat launches on flat beaches is the difficulty of the horses.
It is becoming increasingly hard to get the use of horses and the men to manage them, and they have frequently to...
Category: Articles
Racing Dinghies (1)
Five lifeboats rescue racing dinghies Lifeboats from Hartlepool.Teesmouth and Redcar launched to help 30 dinghies that capsized in gale-force winds on 28 August. The dinghies, competing in a 100-strong race in Hartlepool Bay, were caught out...
News and Views
SEA Check scheme goes coast-wide Why wait until you get into trouble before finding out how well equipped your boat is? That's the reasoning behind the RNLI's SEA Check scheme, which aims to give every boat owner the chance to have a...
Category: Articles
Harry Martin
At 9.15 P.M. on the llth May it was reported that a fishing vessel, the Harry Martin, of Ramsgate, in trying to make the Har- bour had failed to do so and was driving ashore. The weather at the time was very bad, with a strong N.E. gale...
Foreign Life-Boat Stations
As in the general course of commerce in Europe, British vessels visit every part of the narrow seas, and especially the Kattegat and the Baltic (seeing that of the 15,000 vessels that annually pass the Sound up and down, fully one quarter...
Category: Articles
Central Appeals Committee
OPERATION LIFEBOAT has been a great success judging by the various reports that have already come in. The Scouts have set about raising the money in their usual energetic way by walking, swimming, rowing, cycling, clearing up rubbish,...
Category: Committee
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APRIL 1ST. - KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.
Fires at sea had been reported, but after thelife-boat had gone some miles out it became evident that they were right across the channel near the Welsh coast. - Rewards, £19 13s....