LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An American Thunderjet Fighter (2)
Ramsgate, Walmer, and Dover, Kent.
—At 10.8 in the morning of the 13th of September, 1951, the Ramsgate coastguard telephoned to the Rams- gate life-boat station that an aeroplane, an American Thunderjet fighter, had...
Flower of Fleet
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 8.55 on the evening of the 19th of September, 1954, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that red flares had been seen one mile west of Portland Bill. At 9.20 the life-boat William and Clara Ryland put out. The sea was...
Jenny
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 7.15 on the evening of the 4th of April, 1956, the police rang up the life-boat coxswain to say that flares had been seen from a vessel about three miles off shore near Hilbre Island. The coxswain kept the vessel...
Coxswain Thomas Read, of Ramsgate
BY the death on 18th August, at the age of 68, of Coxswain Thomas Read, of Ramsgate, the Institution has lost one of its most distinguished coxswains.
Coxswain Read was appointed second 'coxswain about 1915, when the...
Category: Obituaries
One Man Rescued from Dutch Lighter
Ax 9.14 on the evening of the 7th of December, 1959, the honorary secretary of the Torbay, Devon, life-boat station, Mr. F. W. H. Park, was informed by the coastguard at Berry Head that the Dutch tug Cycloop, which was shelter- ing in Torbay...
Category: Services
Roselen
RESCUE BY LIFE-BOAT AND CANOES Cullercoats, Northumberland. At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 1st June, 1963, a boy called at the second coxswain's house to inform him that a speed boat had capsized outside Cullercoats...
An Eye for Detail In Lifeboat Design
HERE ARE two mooring fittings for afloat lifeboats, developed in the RNLI design office from long experience. (Left) Stemhead fitting: designed for use on cold, dark nights, with good finger-holds and nothing 'fiddly' about it. Cast...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Services
IT is satisfactory to find that during the terrific gales of the few months that have passed of the present year, the life-boats in connection with the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION have been instrumental in rescuing one hundred and...
Category: Services
Fishing Boats
Oh the morning of the 17th November; while a large number of fishing-boats were out, the wind rose, on the turn of the tide, to a strong gale from S.E. The sea was also very rough. The cobles that were nearest the shore managed to get in...
Barkley
On the 12th December, this Life-boat proceeded to the aid of the schooner Barldey, of Ipswich, and with great difficulty succeeded in rescuing her crew consisting of 5 men. The vessel had also struck on Benacre Point and became a total wreck...