LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
No Sea Room—And Other Things
No Sea Room -and other things ROCKS, SHALLOWS or obstructing lines reduced the lifeboats' manoeuvring room in four of the services (described briefly below) for which medals for gallantry were presented at the Royal Festival Hall in May...
Category: Articles
Audrey
Poole and Bournemouth, Dorsetshire.— At eight o'clock in the evening of the 4th of September, 1949, the South bourne coastguard reported that a small vessel was on fire near Poole harbour entrance.
At 8.5 the life-boat...
Suantrai
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 11.53 on the morning of the 13th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat with three people on board was being carried across Kilbrannon Sound. At 12.8 the life-boat City...
Ranger
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. —- At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 16th of July, 1956, immediately after the life- boat had returned from a previous service, a message was received from the Southend (Argyll) coastguard that a small...
Rosemary
Hastings, Sussex - At 4.30 p.m. on 26th July, 1966, it was seen that theyacht Rosemary on an easterly course half a mile south of the station was making very poor headway. The life-boat Fairlight was launched at 4.43 in a gale force...
The "Van Kook" Life-Boat Saving a Shipwrecked Crew on the Goodwin Sands
The "VAN KOOK" LIFEBOAT SAVING A SHIPWRECKED CREW on the Goodwin Sands.
Category: Drawings
HERE and THERE.
Frances Scott, honorary secretary of the Bournemouth branch, sailed to Swanage in his yacht Eulali to attend that station's centenary. On the return passage, when entering Poole Harbour, he saw a 14' skiff, Addio, which had capsized,...
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A Car
Two lifeboats in search for car in tragic cliff-fall The RNLI's chairman, Michael Vemon, has written to the coxswain of Eastbourne's All-weather lifeboat commending him on his actions during a service on 23 June 1990. The helmsman of...
Charis (1)
Baltimore and Courtmacsherry, Co.
Cork.—At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 8th of July, 1956, the Garda at Castle- townshend telephoned that the local yacht Charis had put out the day before and had not returned. At two...
Lifeboat Services
j LIFEBOAT STOOD ON TRANSOM BY BREAKING SEA Seventeen saved from 75ft yacht aground in gale and 20ft breakers Two Hayling Island lifeboatmen, Roderick James and Frank Dunster, have been awarded the RNLI's Silver Medal for their part in...
Category: Services