LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Helmsman Frank Dunster of Hayling Island
Helmsman Frank Dunster of Hayling Island. He joined the lifeboat crew in August 1974 having previously been connected with the Hayling Island Sea Rescue and Research Organisation. Frank was awarded a chairman's letter in 1978, a bronze... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ten Crews Rescued In Seven Hours
ON the 29th July the St. Ives Life-boat performed a series of arduous services, going out five times to the rescue of no fewer than ten vessels, and saving forty men, in the course of seven hours.
On the 28th July a strong...
Category: Services
A Rescue Off the Minquiers Reef
AT 3.10 early on the morning of the 15th of December, 1953, the harbour radio station reported that the motor vessel Brockley Combe, of Bristol, had wirelessed that she had struck the Minquiers Reef and needed help immediately. The Brockley...
Category: Services
TOWN & COUNTRY
Although a Town & Country driveway is beautiful to look at, its beauty is more than skin deep.
Beneath the surface is a unique (ibre reinforcement that helps prevent sinking and spreading.
Its surface,...
Category: Advertisement
Arragonite
At 12.20 A.M. on 3rd February, during a very thick fog, word was received that a vessel was making signals of distress, and the Motor Life-boat H. C. J. was launched. The Hull trawler Arragonite, with a crew of fifteen on board, was found on...
New Choice
Longhope, Orkney.—At about 9.20A.M. on the 1st July information was received by telephone from Torness that a trawler was ashore. A moderate easterly wind was blowing. The sea was smooth, but there was a dense fog.
The...
Kylin
Wells, Norfolk - On ifth September, 1966, the Wells life-boat Ernest Tom Neathercoat rescued a man and his dog from the yacht Kylin. A full account of this service, for which a special award was made to the coxswain and crew, appears on page...
Elinor and Mary, of Milford
About noon of the 14th of November, during a terrible gale from the N.E., signals of distress were hoisted on board vessels at anchor in Fishguard Koads. The No. 1 Life-boat, Sir Edward Perratt, was at once launched; but before she could...
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the ROYAL 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
Two Brothers
MAY 30TH. - LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. Shortly after 1 P.M. the local fishing smack Two Brothers, with a crew of two, went to sea. As a moderate westerly wind was blowing with a moderatesea the smack was watched, and at about 4 P.M. she...