LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
May
Launches 32. Lives rescued 24.
MAY 3RD. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO.
WEXFORD. During the afternoon the coxswain was watching the Wexford pilot boat off Wexford Bar, apparently waiting for the tide. A N.N.E....
Category: Services
Latest from Loch Ness
As reported in the last issue of the Lifeboat, Loch Ness lifeboat station joined the RNLI fold on 2 April, and the crew have since been out on a number of shouts. At the time of writing, they had assisted two grounded cruisers and two yachts...
Category: Articles
Western Lass
Salcombe Life-boat Disaster.
Sunset and evening star, And one clear call {or me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.
Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may...
'The Aberystwyth Lifeboat John and Naomi Beattie (1906 - 1932)'
'The Aberystwyth Lifeboat John and Naomi Beattie (1906 - 1932)' painted by Coxswain Lionel Derek Scott BEM and available as an RNLI Christmas card and also as a postcard..
Category: Drawings
Bank Pays Out!
Bank pays out! Councillor Ian Oxlev, second right, hands over a £300 cheque from the profits of six Torbay bottle banks to works and harbours chairman Denis Reid. Later Mr Reid passed on the cash to Captain Barry Anderson, left,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Services In 1900
Lives saved.
Ada Gane, ketch, of Harwich— stood by vessel.
Albion, schooner, of Runcorn— assisted to save vessel and...... 4 Alnvrick, schooner, of Beaumaris —assisted to save vessel.
Category: Services
New Crew for Looe
Childhood friends John Crabb and Verity Pope, both aged 17, have recently joined the crew at Looe inshore lifeboat station, in Cornwall.
They are both continuing family traditions: John's elder brother Ben is a crew... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Classification of Services and Lives Saved By Life-Boats
CATEGORY Services Lives Saved No. Percen- tage of Total No. Percen- tage of Total (1) Naval vessels . . 5 •4% — — (2) Foreign going merchant vessels 31 2-8% 17 3-4% (3) Home trade mer- chant vessels . . 30 2-7% ...
Category: Services
Coxswain Peter Burwood Presented the Prizes for a Pumpkin
Coxswain Peter Burwood of Harwich presented the prizes for a pumpkin growing competition arranged last year by Bury St Edmunds branch. Seven schools took part and £948.58 was raised together with a further £50 for the sale of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Three Aeroplanes
AUGUST 21ST. - ABERYSTWYTH , CARDIGANSHIRE. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found. While the life-boat was searching, another aeroplane was reported in the sea, and a third in distress, and a motor boat was...