LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lean Machines
The new Atlantic lifeboat workshop at the RNLI's Inshore Lifeboat Centre in East Cowes, Isle of Wight, was officially opened by RNLI President The Duke of Kent on 16 April. The workshop will see the building and refits of the charity’s...
Category: Articles
Inaugural Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats
Fowey (Cornwall), Weymouth (Dorset), Thurso (Caithness), and Stornoway (Island of Lewis) DURING September four new Motor Life-boats were formally inaugurated, those at Fowey, Weymouth, Thurso and Stornoway. Thus, with the South- end-on-Sea...
Category: Inaugurations
Portrait of a Coxswain
COXSWAIN JAMES TURPIN, who has been coxswain of the Fowey life-boat since 1959, was previously assistant mechanic from 1948, when he joined the crew, until his present appointment. In 1958 he swam 100 yards through broken water from the...
Category: Articles
A Speed Boat
Emergency comfort A woman injured her back on a speedboat ride and collapsed in agony on 22 August. Once on Bournemouth pier.Tricia Lee came around and recalls that RNLI lifeguards were there with their first aid and words of...
Three Triumphant Waves from (I to R) Dawn Moore Her Husband Jon and Maggie
Three triumphant waves from (I to r) Dawn Moore, her husband Jon and Maggie Annat. They have just completed a remarkable 22 week circumnavigation of Britain by canoe. All three are instructors at Outward Bound Wales at Aberdovey and Dawn and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Oscar
WHITBY.—On the 5th January, the Life-boat Robert Whitworth was launched at 10.40 P.M., and rescued the crew, consisting of 22 persons, from the s.s. Oscar, of Leith, which vessel had struck off the Whitby Rocks during thick weather and in a...
TRAPPED IN AN INFERNO
EASTBOURNE | 22 MARCH
Two men in Eastbourne had a lucky escape when their motor cruiser went up in flames. Local fishermen pulled them to safety and used the cruiser’s anchor to prevent it from drifting towards the pier. There was...
Category: Articles
Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck (3)
National INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK. ESTABLISHED IN SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS. PATRONESS. HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN. VICE-FATUOUS. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE ALBERT, K.G. HIS MAJESTY THE...
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Kindly Light
At 9 A.M. on the 9th October the sea was making fast, and one of the fishing boats, the Kindly Light, had not returned from the fishing grounds.
The coastguard stations at Bamburgh, Holy Island and Sea Houses were warned...
Gipsy Queen
On the morning of the 13th February, the local motor fishing boat Gipsy Queen, with two men on board, went out sprat-fishing off Fairlight Glen. Her engine broke down; she began to drift; and the men signalled for help. A moderate...