LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Alhena
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 7.45 on the morning of the llth of August, 1956, the Needles coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht with two people on board was ashore on the Shingles.
As the weather was deteriorating, the...
The Merchant Shipping (Life-Saving Appliances) Act, 1888, and the Rules Framed Under Its Provisions
OUR readers may remember that a recent number of this Journal contained an article on the Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Saving Life at Sea. The recommendations of that Committee were in due course embodied in a...
Category: Articles
Gone Wrong
Planks of Honduras mahogany, cut for the skin of a life-boat, which warped while being steamed in order to be bent to the shape of the boat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Grand Unveiling
For the RNLI, the London Boat Show 2006 in January was the chance to show the world the newTamar class of lifeboat, to recruit new supporters and to unveil the Institution's groundbreaking. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Glad Tidings
MARCH 19TH. - NORTH SUNDERLAND.
NORTHUMBERLAND. The motor lifeboat W.R.A. was launched at 2.20 P.M. as news had come that the engine of the local motor fishing boat Glad Tidings had broken down. A light S.E. breeze was...
Wild Rose
— About 6 A.M. on the 25th August, a small yacht with four persons on board was seen to be dragging her anchors in the prevailing S.W. gale, and it was deemed expedient to send assistance. Eleven of the Life-boat's crew therefore pro-...
Thrush
At 6.10 P.M.
on the 18th September, one of the Life-boat Crew reported to the Cox- swain that a small yacht, the Thrush, of Hull, had stranded on the end -of Spurn Point. A light N.W. breeze was blowing, with a slight...
Ripple
Salcombe, Devon.—At 8.1 on the even- ing of the 14th of July, 1957, the Hope Cove coastguard telephoned that a yacht needed help half a mile south- east of Prawle Point. At 8.10 the life-boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse put out in a smooth...
Sweet Sue
CREW OF THREE Salcombe, South Devon. At 5.2 p.m.
on 9th October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a sailing yacht appeared to be in distress two miles west-north-west of Bolt Tail. She was tossing in a...
Estelle
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 4.40 p.m. on 22nd September, 1968, the garda informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had fired a flare between the West pier and Howth. The life-boat John F. Kennedy slipped her moorings at 5 o'clock...