LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sans Peur
LIFE-BOAT ON PASSAGE On 22nd May, 1965, the new life-boat The Doctors, which was on passage to her station at Anstruther from the boatbuilders at Littlehampton, sighted the speed boat Sans Peur broken down one mile and a half east of Dover...
(Below) a Vintage Gift: This 1926
(Below) A vintage gift: this 1926, four-seater open tourer Rolls-Royce 20 was generously donated to the RNLI and recently came under the hammer at a Christie's car auction at Beaulieu in Hampshire. In the words of the sale catalogue:... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Silent Appeal
A NOVEL form of appeal was tried in Norwich this year. In place of a life-boat flag day, a silent appeal was made. There were no collectors.
Instead twenty-six large life-boat col- lecting boxes, hung on davits, were placed...
Category: Donations
An Eye for Detail In Lifeboat Design
LOOKING AT a lifeboat when housed, perhaps the first design detail to catch the eye is the propeller and its tunnel.
Each of the twin propellers is housed in a tunnel built into the stern, the principal aims being shallow...
Category: Articles
Fishing Boats (1)
North Sunderland and Holy Island, Northumberland.—Four Beadnell fish- ing boats were overtaken by bad weather on the morning of the 30th October and made for home. The pulling and sailing life-boat Lizzie Porter was hauled on her carriage to...
Weather Reports and Forecasts In the Daily Newspapers
By Rear-Admiral FITZ-ROY, F.R.S.
KNOWING these circumstances, and having accurate statistical observations of these various currents, at selected outlying stations, showing pressure (or tension), temperature, and relative...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THE Life-boat Saturday workers through- out the country, after reviewing the year's campaign thus far conducted, may well congratulate themselves on the very satisfactory results they have secured.
Taking all things...
Category: Articles
Accounts of Services by Life-boats (2)
Launches 37. Lives Rescued 12.
MCH. 3RD. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, AND KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD. A the message was received at Rosslare at 4.55 P.M. that an Irish Air Force seaplane had come down in the sea off Carnsore Point. A S.S...
Category: Services
Maid of the Harbour
Casualties as pleasure boat collides with landing craft Poole's 33ft Brede and Boston Whaler lifeboats were called to a major emergency inside Poole Harbour on 26 June 1988.
Maid of the Harbour, a large pleasure craft...
Yachts and Dinghies (1)
A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...