LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Four-Masted Barqe Asnieres
In response to a message received from the Coastguard on the 2nd December, stating that a four-masted barque was ashore and in need of immediate assistance, the Life- boat Bob Newbon was launched. The vessel proved to be the Asnieres, of...
The Ebenezer
MONTROSE.—All the Ferryden fishingboats went to sea at about 6 o'clock on the morning of the 8th January whilst the wind was blowing moderately from the W.S.W. In the course of the day the wind shifted to S.S.B., and as the sea was...
Rfd-Gq Ltd
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR SAFETY AT SEA? RFD 'Z' boats are extensively used by RNLI for inshore rescue work.
Specially developed for rough weather conditions with a large reserve of built in buoyancy.
Category: Advertisement
Judging taking Place in the Birmingham Post's Children's Poster Design Competition, Organised In Association With the R.N.L.I, and the British Poster Advertising Association. Entrants, from All Parts
Judgingtaking placein The Birmingham Post's children's poster design competition, organised in association with the R.N.L.I, and the British Poster Advertising Association. Entrants, from all parts of the Midlands, were asked to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rowland
APRIL 10TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 11.45 A.M. a message was received from the naval authorities that a naval patrol boat had picked up a barge, which had been abandoned, and asked that the life-boat should bring it in. A light...
Nancy
Drifting trawler THE RAMSGATE TRAWLER Nancy reported to Ramsgate Harbour Radio on the evening of Monday January 30, 1984, that warps and nets had fouled her propeller. Her position was one and ahalf miles east south east of North Foreland...
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
Polly
Nov. 7TH. - WICKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.
At 8.30 P.M. signals of distress were seen from a fishing skiff about two miles north-east of Wicklow Pier. A moderate S.W. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. At 8.45 P.M. the motor...
A Dinghy
Skin divers trapped AN INFLATABLE DINGHY with four people on board, sighted drifting close inshore north of Fleshwick Bay, was reported to Port Erin deputy launching authority by Ramsey Coastguard, Isle of Man, at 1614 on Tuesday March...
The S.S. Governor
DECEMBER 6TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 9.15 A.M. the Mersey Docks Board reported a steamer drifting in the Queens Channel, but not in need of help at that time. A heavy westerly gale was blowing, with a wild and confused sea, and the...