LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
In Addition to the Fast Hatch Experimental Boat, the R.N.L.I. Is Experimenting With Another Rescue Craft
In addition to the fast Hatch experimental boat, the R. N.L.I, is experimenting with another rescue craft - a craft designed by Mr. J. A. McLachlan, M.R.I.N.A., who served on the staff of the Institution as chief draughtsman from 1948 to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Long Service Awards
The Long Service Badge for crew members and shore helpers who have given active service for 20 years or more has been awarded to: Aberdovey - Shore Helper D.R. Williams Aith - Coxswain K. Henry Angle - Crew Member R. O'Callaghan...
Category: Awards
A Fisherman's Appeal
As reported in the " Services of the Life-boats," the motor life-boat at Stornoway, on the Island of Lewis, in the Hebrides, was called out shortly before midnight on 14th February, to the help of two fishing boats off Tolsta Head,...
Category: Poetry
Naming Ceremony at Ilfracombe
THE naming ceremony of a new motor life-boat at Ilfracombe, Devon, took place on 16th June. The life-boat is one of the first two of the new surf type, described on page 167. She has cost £2,750, and has been built out of a legacy from...
Category: Inaugurations
The S.S. Ria de Cormes, of Cadiz
MARCH 2ND. - WALMER, KENT. At 4.35 in the morning the Deal coastguard reported a vessel in distress off South Goodwin Light-vessel. A northerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. At five o’clock, the motor life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil...
Laurence C H Cave
November Laurence C. H. Cave, who had been elected a member of the Committee of Management in 1947, a vice-president of the Institution in 1964 and a life vicepresident in 1977; he had served on both the Finance and the Establishment...
Category: Obituaries
A Surfboard
Lone surfer saved in_near gale Eastbourne's D class inflatable saved the life of a surfer on 21 June 1997 in conditions which swamped the lifeboat when launching, threw a crew member overboard and needed the all-weather lifeboat to...
A Meteor Aeroplane (2)
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, Aberyst- wyth, Cardiganshire, Barmouth, Meri- onethshire, and Pwllheli, Caernarvon- shire.
At 3.19 in the afternoon of the 5th of May, 1952, the Fishguard coast- guard telephoned to the Fishguard...
The Second Hen Island Challenge Race
The second Hen Island Challenge Race, for home-built craft which have cost no more than £25 and which have never before put to sea, was sailed in Northern Ireland last October; Portaferry D class inflatable lifeboat acted as one of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishing Vessels
Eyemouth, Berwickshire. — On the morning of the 15th March, 1939, several fishing vessels were returning to harbour. A heavy sea was running in the bay, and the motor life-boat Frank and William Oates was launched at 9.45 A.M. in readiness...