LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Competitors In the Strenuous Wards Hill Challenge Aboard Kirkwall's Arun Class Lifeboat
Competitors in the strenuous Wards Hill Challenge aboard Kirkwall's Arun class lifeboat Mickie Salveson. There are four hills to climb - but the snag is they are on four different islands and there is 73 miles of cycling and 8 miles of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Annual Report. 1901
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Town Hall, Westminster, on Saturday, the 20th day of April, 1901, His Grace the DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G-., in the Chair, the following Report of the...
Category: Annual Reports
Donald
Exmouth, Devon. At 9.57 on the evening of the 7th of June, 1959, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from the police at Dawlish that a motor boat was making distress signals two miles off Dawlish.
At...
Naming Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats
DURING the past summer the naming ceremonies have been held of ten motor life-boats, at Gourdon, Hythe, Ilfra- combe, North Sunderland, Port St.
Mary, St. David's, Sheringham, Sunder- land, Wells, and Yarmouth, Isle of ...
Category: Articles
Belgian Trawler In Distress Off Kentish Coast
AT 2.24 on the morning of the llth January, 1962, the Deal coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary of the Margate life-boat station, Mr. H. B.
Fleet, that a small vessel had been seen by the Dutch motor vessel...
Category: Services
Caroline
HAYLE, CORNWALL.—The three-masted schooner Caroline, of Padstow, bound from Hayle for Cardiff with sand, while being towed out of the harbour, in a j moderate W.N.W. breeze and a very heavy ground sea, on the 23rd January, stranded on the...
Caroline
On the 23rd February, the steam Lifeboat was called out by signals from the Formby and Crosby light vessels, and on reaching the latter found she had a shipwrecked crew on board. Their vessel, the schooner Caroline, of Fowey, had lost her...
Harry
.—At 2.45 A.M., on the 13th March, the Coast- guard reported by telegram that flares were being burnt off Porthcurnow, close to the shore. The Life-boat Ann Newbon was launched, and when near Porth- curnow they observed a flare. They ...
Douglas Lifeboat the 46' 9" Watson R a Colby Cubbin No 1 Which Kept Watch Over Cargo Vessel Ivy Taking Water and Listing on January 3 and 4 Is Seen Here Launching T
Douglas lifeboat, the 46' 9" Watson R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 1, which kept watch over cargo vessel Ivy, taking water and listing, on January 3 and 4, is seen here launching to the aid of the pleasure boat White Rose at 1945 on Monday,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Unknown Yacht and April Legend and On Y Va
Triple rescueThe last day of June 2001 marked the end of the BT Global Challenge and Calshot's D class lifeboat RJM was at sea to welcome the yachts back to Southampton. RNLI lifeboats are always on call, however, and at just after 3pm,...