LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Weather Charts and Storm Warnings
"STORM -warnings may be considered as the most immediate practical application of weather knowledge." Mr. EGBERT H. SCOTT, Director of the Meteorological Department, so commences the eighth chapter of the admirable work to which he...
Category: Charts
List of Donations and Annual Subscriptions
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Category: Donations
Fundraising
Partners at the Show More than 10,000 people queued at the RNLI stand at the Southampton Boat Show in September 2004. They were able to see the technology used to save lives at sea on a Severn class lifeboat.
Two of the...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
South West Division Boys stranded rr WAS AN HOUR before high water on the afternoon of Sunday July 20, 1986, when the honorary secretary of Westonsuper- Mare lifeboat station was contacted by Swansea Coastguard to be told that two boys were...
Category: Services
A Dell Quay Dory
Found in time THE NIGHT OF JANUARY 11, 1987 W3S bitterly cold, with temperatures falling to minus 10°C along the south coast.
In Poole Harbour a north-easterly wind created a chill factor of minus 15°C or more, so...
Focus on Mudeford
MUDEFORD, Hampshire, was on of the first stations to take an inshore life-boat in 1963.
It was operated on an experimental basis during the summer of that year. The boat was withdrawn for the winter and then Iudeford was...
Category: Articles
Otter
Crew member leaps aboard casualty from C class inflatable Helmsman Peter Heading and Crew Member Robert Gorman of Aberystwyth lifeboat station have been awarded the RNLI's Bronze medal for Gallantry following the rescue of a lone...
Louis Sheid and Tajandoen (1)
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT SALCOMBE DEC. 7TH. - SALCOMBE, AND PLYMOUTH, DEVON. Early in the morning the Belgian steamer Louis Sheid, of over 6,000 tons, was in the English Channel on her way to Antwerp. She had a crew of forty-six men. She saw...
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Search for divers THE SUPPORT BOAT of a party of divers contacted the coastguard at 1355 on the afternoon of Sunday September 15, 1985, to say that two of their divers had not surfaced from their diving on the wreck of ss Teddington, about...
A Canadian Ship, H.M.S.C. Regina, and The Liberty Ship Ezra Weston
AUGUST 9TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
About 10.15 on the night of the 8th of August a message was received, through the coastguard, from a convoy that a ship was in distress and a pilot was needed. The night was very foggy, but...