First in the world I was most interested to read the article on Lionel Lukin in the summer number of THE LIFEBOAT. I see that the author is a member of the Hythe branch of the RNLI. If he has not already read the article on Lionel Lukin...
Category: Correspondence
Blowing up a Storm The RNLI's Storm Force junior club will be known to a much wider audience now, following the naming of an InterCity 125 locomotive 'Storm Force' on Saturday 27 April.
The ceremony was held at...
Category: Articles
At 7.20 A.M. on the 7th June, during a strong S.S.W. gale and very heavy sea, the steamer Elswick, of Newcastle, drove ashore in Seaford Bay. The motor Life-Boat Sir FitzRoy Clayton at once proceeded to her, and found that she was in a very...
Services by the Life-boats of the Institution and by Shore-boats during 1941 During the year life-boats were launched 747 times. Of these launches 481 were to vessels and aeroplanes in distress through attack by the enemy or from other...
Category: Services
On the 25th October the Christopher Ludlow Life-boat of this station was enabled to render valuable assistance to the brigantine Richard Thompson, of Belfast, which had •gone on Dungarvan Bar during a fresh breeze at S.S.W. The sea broke...
An open day which raised £1,600 at Short ham's Lady Bee Marina attracted crowds of people who enjoyed boat trips, a lifeboat demonstration, a fashion show, a fencing display and not least Liz Naldrett's tantalising shellfish.<... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On the 28th De- cember, during a gale from S.S.W., the brig Flying Cloud, of Bideford, was run into by another vessel, and afterwards became a total wreck on Batten Reef. The Prince Consort life-boat was quickly launched, and succeeded in...
JUST after two in the afternoon of 22nd April, the Cullercoats motor life-boat Richard Silver Oliver was launched on exercise. She is a boat of the light Liverpool type, 35 feet 6 inches by 10 feet 3 inches, weighing seven tons with her crew...
Category: Articles
Early on the morning of the 23rd August the steam trawler Port Jackson, of Peter- head, carrying a crew of nine, ran ashore at Scotston Head during a fog.
The wind was only light from the S.E., but there was a heavy swell....
HARWICH.—-At noon on the 7th Feb., in answer to a telegram, the Springwtll Life-boat was manned and put off to the rescue of the crew of a vessel ashore on the Shipwash Sand. A strong S.S.E. wind was blowing at the time, and the sea was...