LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (15)
MAY 25TH. - RAMSGATE. KENT. At 6.34 P.M. a message was received from the Ramsgate coastguard that the R.A.F. command at Manston had reported an aeroplane down in the sea approximately five miles from Dunkirk, and that the naval authorities...
Children Rescued from Cabin Cruiser
ON the afternoon of 16th September, 1962, Mr. Kenneth Johnson and his brother, Mr. Frank Johnson, with six of their children aged between two and twelve, went on board Mr. Kenneth Johnson's cabin cruiser, which was one of the Dolphin...
Category: Services
Outboard: Speed and Power
ATLANTIC 21 AND D CLASS inshore lifeboats, out on trials, are a familiar sight in the Solent; testing and proving the vast amount of detailed development work which, over the past 15 years or so, has been quietly going ahead at the RNLI...
Category: Articles
Maid of the Harbour
Casualties as pleasure boat collides with landing craft Poole's 33ft Brede and Boston Whaler lifeboats were called to a major emergency inside Poole Harbour on 26 June 1988.
Maid of the Harbour, a large pleasure craft...
Income and Expenditure for 1927
Lite-boats:- EXPENDITURE. t s. a. £ New Life-boats for the following stations : — On account — Aberdeen, Eastbourne, Piel (Barrow), Rosslare Harbour, Southend-on-Sea, Stromness, Swanage, and Walton-on-Naze, etc 33,252 7 3 Provision of...
Category: Accounts
Your shout
Following your feature on lifejacket development (Spring 2012), here's what happened to me in 1971 or so. I was in the Blessington Sailing Club in Co Wicklow. Despite the Finn class boats experiencing such conditions that their event was...
Category: Articles
Whitby:
Whitby: 1235 on Tuesday March 19, 1985. A party of 27 school children with three teachers were reported by a member of the public to be cut off by the tide at Jump Down Bight, 250 yards east of Whitby. Both the relief 44ft Waveney class... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services
South Eastern Division Capsized yacht WHILE CROSS CHANNEL FERRY Viking Venturer was entering the Needles Channel on Monday evening July 3 she reported at 2002 the sighting of a capsized and semi-sunken yacht five cables south of Bridge Buoy....
Category: Services
The Institution's Expenditure at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was laid out in 1938.
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Category: Accounts