LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Your Letters
A bear thank you Sir -1 should like to thank everyone who has written requesting a personalized teddy bear, (Bear necessities, Summer 1989 issue).
The teddy bears are still available and the letters RNLI can be worked on...
Category: Correspondence
Not All Services Are Hazardous! on a Glorious October Evening.
Not all services are hazardous! On a glorious October evening.
Yarmouth lifeboat Is photographed heading out on exercise, with Hurst Castle and Lignl visible m the background.
Photo Or Nigel Reid.View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wesley
On the 8th March, soon after daylight, it was reported that a ketch was ashore on the north part of the Goodwin Sands. The weather up to this time had been hazy. Orders were at once given for the Life-boat Bradford and a tug to go out to...
Lifeboat Transporting Carriage. (With Tipping's Wheelplates.)
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger sizes, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
Category: Articles
A taste for lifesaving
He owns a string of top eateries in London – so what is it that keeps restaurateur, chef and food writer Mark Hix coming back to the seaside?
There’s a force 7 off the Dorset coast, and...
Category: Articles
Silence Is Golden Rabbi Jonathan Romain
Silence is golden. Rabbi Jonathan Romain (r), minister of Maidenhead Synagogue, took part in a sponsored non-sermon in August. He toured shops and offices in Maidenhead and told people he would give them a 30 minute sermon on the merits of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services
Crew member swims to stranded yachtWells' Mersey class lifeboat Doris M. Mann of Ampthill was called to the aid of a 28ft yacht which was stranded on Blakeney Point on 31 July 1993, rescuing the yacht the two adults and two children on...
Category: Services
Third Medal Service on Same Day
THE third of the services carried out on the 27th of October, 1959, for which medals for gallantry were awarded took place near Fraserburgh harbour. In the temporary absence of Captain R. T.
Duthie the assistant harbour...
Category: Services
A Motor Boat
Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 8.12 on the evening of the 6th October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a sixteen-feet outboard motor boat with an amateur frogman on board was overdue. The frogman had left Port Bradden...
February
FEBRUARY 2ND. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 9.37 A.M. the Cromer coastguard telephoned that a vessel, about one and a half miles north of Cromer, had reported that she had a man on board dangerously ill. The coastguard also...
Category: Services