LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Midnight Matinee
The Midnight Matinee which was planned to be held at the Victoria Palace theatre in London on March 8, and which was announced in the last number of THE LIFEBOAT had to be cancelled as a consequence of the economic outlook at the beginning...
Category: Articles
Robin Knox-Johnston
Robin Knox-Johnston (r), the yachtsman and a member of the RNLI's committee of management, had a bet with Don Wood (I) on who would be first to Lowestoft in the Round Britain and Ireland Yacht Race. The stake was 20 pairs of boots for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
First Launch
First launch The townspeople of Swanage proudly look on as their new 12m Mersey class lifeboat Robert Charles Brown is launched for the first time along the station slipway on 12 June. The event marked the culmination of many years hard... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Would-be rescuers rescued
Porthcawl’s B class lifeboat Rose of the Shires was launched into the sweltering heat of 26 June to help six people in the water. Three children were being swept out to sea on bodyboards; their mother and grandfather tried to swim out to...
Category: Articles
Pearl, of Carnarvon
On the 11th December, during a heavy gale from the S.W., the smack Pearl, of Carnarvon, at anchor near the Dutchman's Bank, hoisted signals of distress. On these being observed from the shore, the life-boat was launched, and reaching the...
Casco
Also on the 22nd November, at 3 P.M., in reply to her signals of distress, this Life-boat boarded the Russian barque Caseo, of Bargo, which vessel was aground on the South Sand, it blowing hard from the N.E., with considerable sea. At the...
Nomis
MUTUAL AID OFF PORTLAND FOLLOWING the sighting at about 10 p.m. on 4th February, 1972, by the gas tanker Methane Princess of a small vessel firing distress flares off Portland Bill, the Weymouth, Dorset, life-boat was prepared for launching....
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
Si. ANDREW'S, N.B. —- The Life-boat placed on this station some years since by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION had done good service from time to time, it having saved 22 lives from different ship- wrecks ; but last year it was found...
Category: Articles
Policemen In IRB Rescue
FOR their part in the rescue of three people from a burning motor boat off Bournemouth, Police Sergeant Douglas H. Carter, aged 43, and Police Constable Arthur E. Farley, aged 46, have received the thanks of the R.N.L.I. inscribed on vellum....
Category: Services
Rowing Boats
Thames race disaster avertedThe annual Veterans' Head of the River Race ended in chaos on Sunday, 21 March after being hit by gale-force winds and strong tides.
More than 140 boats were participating, with nine crew in...