LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
News and Views
The 175th year looking back After a remarkable year the 175th anniversary programme formally ends at the 2000 London Boat Show.
There was more total media coverage of the RNLI's birthday in one day on 4 March than in...
Category: Articles
Loss of Member of Exmouth Crew
AT 4.59 on the afternoon of Christmas Day, 1956, the coastguard informed the Exmouth honorary secretary, Mr.
P. H. C. Butler, that a vessel was burning- red flares four miles south- east of Orcombc Point. This is about...
Category: Services
Income and Expenditure for 1929
Life-boats:- EXPENDITURE. £ ,. d. £ „. a.
New Life-boats for the following stations :—On account —Angle, Ballycotton, Berwick-on-Tweed, Campbel- town, Clacton, Courtmacsherry, Cromarty, Dover,...
Category: Accounts
Doreen
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 9.50 on the night of the 27th of April, 1950, lights, believed to be flares, were seen from the signal station. At 10.15 the police confirmed seeing them from St.
Martin's Point. At 10.45...
Annie
Three days later the James Stevens No. 15 was again called out, and rescued the crew of seven men of the smack Annie, of Wexford. In answer to her signals of distress, the Life-boat proceded at 7.30 P.M. and found the smack near the bar at...
An Aeroplane (14)
FEBRUARY 27TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
At 3.40 P.M. an aeroplane crashed in the sea about two miles N.E. of the life-boat station, and life-boatmen standing by at the boathouse saw part of it above water. Sevenminutes later the...
It Was a Dark and Stormy Night By Jilly Cooper
Last winter JILLY COOPER visited {Hastings lifeboat station and recorded her impressions in her own inimitable wayI'VE ALWAYS thought the lifeboats the most romantic of charities. A lump comes to my throat when I think of the courage and...
Category: Articles
A Smal Boat
Small boat swamped ON MONDAY EVENING, AugUSt 18, 1975, the honorary secretary of Whitby lifeboat station was informed by Whitby Coastguard that a small boat which they had had under observation had been swamped a quarter of a mile to seaward...
Sultan & Pet
About 3.30 P.M. on the 6th March a ketch was seen trying to beat up for Tenby Roads, but when about three-and-a-half miles off, her canvas was all blown away.
There was a whole N.N.W. gale at the time and the sea was very...
Altivo, of Lisbon
On the night of the 23rd February, a vessel was ob- served on shore inside the South Tail Sand- bank, Bideford Bay. The wind was blowing a gale at the time from W.N. W. The Hope life-boat was promptly launched, and pro- ceeded towards the...