LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
As the Young See Us
The image of the RNLI affects almost every aspect of its operation. Without a high profile in the public eye the task of the fundraisers is made more difficult.
Concepts form at an early age, and the way youngsters perceive...
Category: Articles
Airdrie, of Stranraer
On the 25th Sept., the schooner Airdrie, of Stranraer, was stranded on the Baldoyle Sands, in Dublin Bay, during a gale of wind. The same life-boat went off through a heavy and dangerous sea and rescued the crew of 4 men..
Ceres
Appledore, Devon.—The ketch Ceres, of Bude, left Swansea for Bude with a cargo of slag on the 24th November, That night, when in Croyde bay, she sprang a bad leak, and foundered. Her crew of two men were rescued.—Rewards, £19 12*. (For...
The Life-Boat Service Abroad
UNITED STATES.
THE Annual Report of the United States Life-Saving Service for the year ending 30th June, 1913, states that 73 lives were lost on the coasts (which includes the coast of the Great...
Category: Articles
Fishing Cobles
On the 14th May the first of six fishing-cobles re- turned to harbour, in a strong N.N.E.
breeze, at 11.30 A.M. Four boats came in safely, and although everything was in readiness it was not considered neces- sary to launch...
Life-Boat Regulations. January, 1865
THE following Regulations are intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, an j to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew, and...
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Phoenix AX193
OCTOBER 19TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVON.
At 1.30 in the morning a message came from the naval officer-in-charge at Appledore that phoenix AX193 - one of the concrete caissons used to build the breakwater of the invasion port on...
Kopenes
The Humber, Yorkshire.—At 8.45 P.M. on the 22nd September, 1939, the signal station reported that red flares had been seen in an easterly direction. A fresh northerly wind was blowing, with a very rough sea. At 8.48 P.M. the motor life-boat...
The Humber Lightship
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 10.8 oil the morning of the 1st of March, 1953, the Spurn coastguard telephoned that the master of the Humber lightship had requested the help of the life-boat to land a sick man. The life-boat City of Bradford II was...
A Yacht
Outbreak of fires At 4.30am on 4 January 2006, the B class Atlantic 21 Falmouth Round Table launched to a 6.7m yacht on fire on the Penryn River, Cornwall. The skipper had been asleep when the fire started but managed to escape through the...