LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Racing Skiff
Torbay, Devon - At 10.28 a.m on 9th April, 1967, it was reported that four youths were rowing from Teignmouth to Dartmouth in a 16-foot racing skiff. Their escort boat had gone aground and the youths had continued without it. As the sea was...
A Pinnace (1)
LERWICK'S 27 HOURS' SEARCH.
Lerwick, and Aith, Shetlands.—4th October, 1939. In the morning a Royal Air Force aeroplane came down on the sea about twenty-five miles N.E.
of the N.E. corner of...
Coxswain Howard Knight
MR. HOWARD PRIMROSE KNIGHT, who died on the 23rd of November, 1956, served in the Ramsgate life-boat for more than twenty-three years. He was coxswain from 1935 to 1946, and for his services in helping to bring off some 2,800 men from the...
Category: Obituaries
Rfd-Gq Ltd
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR SAFETY AT SEA? RFD 'Z' boats are extensively used by RIMLI for inshore rescue work.
Specially developed for rough weather conditions with a large reserve of built in...
Category: Advertisement
Pat
At 7.30 A.M. on the 8th December, during a dense fog, the watchman reported that a vessel was ashore on the beach, one mile to the eastward of the watch-house. The crew of the Life-boat were at once assembled and proceeded in the...
The Panamanian Steamer Buccaneer and Tanker Johannishus.
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 3.26 on the morning of the 9th of June, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a wireless message had been intercepted from the Panamanian steamer Buccaneer that she had caught fire after being' in collision with the...
Top Class
Every year, pupils at Cliff House, Sexey's School in Bruton, Somerset arrange a sponsored walk and nominate four charities. This year the RNLI was chosen and the school presented Basil Mosenthal of the Bruton and District branch with a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pass-o-Leny (1)
DEC. 1ST. - LYTHAM - ST. ANNE’S, LANCASHIRE, AND NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 8.45 A.M. the Lytham secondcoxswain reported a vessel ashore by Peet’s Light, south of the 12th Mile Beacon. A S.W.
gale was blowing, with a heavy...
Margaret Herd
CREW RESCUED At 4.25 a.m. on 9th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Margaret Herd was ashore near Fraserburgh.
Later the coastguard reported that red flares had been...
A Gallant Ramsgate Cook
ON 29th September, 1925, the trawler Rig, of Ramsgate, was wrecked off Tolpedn, Cornwall, in a thick fog, when returning from a fishing voyage at Swansea. She had nine men on board.
Seven of the nine were rescued from the...
Category: Services