LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Commentary
In place of the usual Notes of the Quarter there appears in this number an appeal by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I.
In other parts of this number there appear as usual accounts of services by the crews of life-boats and IRBs....
Category: Articles
A Speed Boat
RSPCA award ON WEDNESDAY AugUSt 12, 1981, Hlinstanton's D class inflatable lifeboat was called to a speedboat which, unoccupied except for a dog, was spinning round and round out of control off South Beach. The man who had been driving...
Tenby May 17 1986:
Tenby, May 17, 1986: meteorological records showed Tenby to be the wettest place in the country on the day the station's new D class inflatable lifeboat was handed over and dedicated. This did nothing to dampen the spirits of sisters... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Margate Then...
Last year marked the centenary of the loss of Margate rescue surf boat Friend to all nations along with nine of her crew. The surfboat was operated by a group of local boatmen in tandem with the RNLI lifeboat - generally the same men would... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ceremonies
Sennen Cove Mersey class The Four Boys Eighteen years on from the visit of His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent to name the previous Sennen Cove lifeboat, history was repeated on Wednesday 22 April as the town, bedecked in flags and sunshine,...
Category: Inaugurations
Sybilla, of Castlebay (1)
AUGUST 29TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES.
During the late evening of the 28th of August the relatives of the crew of four of the motor fishing boat Sybilla, of Castlebay, became anxious, as the boat was overdue from lobster...
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JANUARY 20TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
After dark the naval motor fishing vessel 1165 ran on Corton Beach, and the mate scrambled ashore to get help. At 10.35 the coastguard informed the life-boat station, and at 10.47 the...
Veluna, of Liverpool
On the 19th October, the^same life-boat put off', during stormy. weather, to the rescue of the crew of a vessel which was observed to be stranded on the Long Bank.
On arriving alongside, they found that the only...
Lucy, of Sunderland
On the 11th De- cember, the brig Lucy, of Sunderland, was stranded on the shoal part of the Barber Sand. The beachmen put off in one of their yawls, and endeavoured to get the vessel off.
In this, however, they failed; and...
Jachin
At 6.30 P.M. on the 13th March during a S.W. gale, information was received that a barge— the Jachin, of Maldon — bound from London to Newport, Isle of Wight, with a cargo of wheat, had struck the bar and was driving into the Bay. The Motor...