LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Thirty-Fifth Civil Service Life-Boat
ST. KATHARINE DOCK, London, was the scene in blustery weather on 4th May, 1966, of the naming of the first of the Institution's fleet of yo-foot steel life-boats - the £57,000 Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 35) - by Princess...
Category: Inaugurations
ONCE TRAINED NEVER FORGOTTEN
You never forget your RNLI training. For our lifeboat crews, the ability to assess a situation and take immediate action is vital. When Isles of Scilly boatman and retired lifeboat Coxswain Andy Howells saw a boat capsize during a wildlife...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
SOME astounding figures have been recorded of the services of life-boats in 1961. The month of August this year was, for instance, by far the busiest month the service has ever known since it was founded 137 years ago. During the month...
Category: Articles
Wolfsburg
Torbay, Devon.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 21st of September, 1953, the local Lloyds agent rang up to say that the motor vessel Wolfsburg, of Hamburg, had an injured man on board and would arrive at Torbay at eleven...
The S.S. Durban Castle
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 11.5 on the night of the 18th of December, 1958, the port medical officer of Cowes informed the honorary secretary that an injured seaman on board the S.S.
Durban Castle required hospital treat-...
A Rowing Boat (2)
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 12.11 early on the morning of the 29th of July, 1959, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a police report that an 18-feet rowing boat with one man aboard had gone fishing from Boddam but had not...
Devonbrook
SICK MAN TAKEN OFF MOTOR VESSEL Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 12.45 early on the morning of the 2nd January, 1962, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that he had received a message from the motor vessel Devonbrook of London, which was...
The S.S. Duke of Lancaster
DEC. 10TH. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.
At 8.30 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the S.S. Duke of Lancaster, of Barrow, anchored about three miles N.E. of Ramsey, required a doctor to attend to an injured man...
A Small Boat (1)
On the evening of the 15th August news was received that a small boat with a man and a woman on board had been seen in difficulties, drifting with the tide through Calf Sound. The honorary secretary engaged a motor boat and went in search...
The Motor Dinghy Jaime Lewis
CRIES FOR HELP Poole, Dorset. At 10.45 p.m. on 1st May, 1964, cries for help were heard coming from the harbour from the direction of Stakes buoy. The Institution's rubber dinghy manned by the life-boat's motor mechanic and a member...