LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Roaming
Arklow, Co. Wicklow— On the 28th November, 1938, the trawler Roaming, of Arklow, with a crew of three, lost her rudder while fishing in Courtown Bay. She made for Arklow with the flood tide, using trawl boards for steering, and sending up...
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HELICOPTER RESCUES TWO FROM DINGHY Minehead, and Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 11.30 on the morning of the 26th August, 1962, the police at Minehead reported that a dinghy, with a crew of two, was in difficulties off Dunster beach, and at...
Coxswain Peter Bisson of St.Peter Port
Coxswain Peter Bisson of St Peter Port joined the lifeboat crew in 1980 and became second coxswain in 1984 before being appointed coxswain in 1986. Together with his fellow crew members he was awarded a bronze medal in 1981 for the rescue of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cover Picture
Sir Samuel Kelly, the 46ft 9in Watson relief lifeboat on temporary duty at Courtmacsherry Harbour tows in Casse Tete V during the Fastnet storm. In all that day, Tuesday August 14, 1979, Courtmacsherry lifeboat, under the command of Coxswain... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Statement of the Several Life-Boats Belonging to Or In Connexion With the National Life-Boat Institution
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Category: Articles
Statement of the Several Life-Boats Belonging to Or In Connection With the National Life-Boat Institution
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A Pontoon
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 6.35 on the morning of the 19th August, 1961, the coxswain received a request for the help of the life-boat to take workmen off Messrs. Wimpey's pontoon. He contacted the honorary secretary, who authorised the...
Henley-On-Thames
Only RNLI supporters could find a way of feeding the swans and ducks on the Thames and collecting money for lifeboats simultaneously.
At Henley-on-Thames the branch has arranged to fill this bin with unsold loaves, kindly... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Thurne
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 17th of September, 1952, the Foreland coast- guard telephoned that a sailing yacht was in distress two miles south-east of the look-out hut, near the Princessa Buoy. Ten...
Management of Boats In Broken Water
COPIES of the following circular, relative to the proper management of boats when running to the shore before a heavy broken sea, have been forwarded to the branches of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, with the view to its being...
Category: Articles