LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fine Dutch Service
WE had hoped to publish in this number of The Lifeboat an account of a very fine service by three Dutch Lifeboats last February to the English steamer Shonga, for which the King has presented the British Government's Silver Medal...
Category: Services
Lifeboat - In Danger's Hour By Patrick Howarth
Lifeboat - in Danger's Hour by Patrick Howarth and published by Hamlyns was 'launched' at Eastbourne last April, when the author (r.} presented a copy to Coxwain/ Mechanic Ronald Wheeler. Chosen by the Booksellers Association as... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of Accounts for 1977
Summary of Accounts for 1977 Full accounts are available from Poole Headquarters.
£ millions 6.5 How expenditure was apportioned Ten years at a glance 0.5 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 Areas of...
Category: Accounts
Energetic £300K
Scottish and Southern Energy has committed to donating £100,000 a year to the RNLI for the next 3 years.
The money will be spent on crew training at Aldeburgh, Harwich, Lowestoft and Southwold lifeboat stations....
Category: Articles
A Hundred Years Ago
WE believe that a life-belt, for an adult person of average size, ought to have, at the least, buoyant power equal to 20 Ibs., and as much more as can conveniently be obtained.
Having decided on the amount of buoyancy, the...
Category: Articles
Prince
Torbay, Devon.—At 6.55 P.M. on the 16th January, 1939, it was reported that the open motor fishing boat Prince, of Torquay, with three men on board,was overdue on a trip from Torquay to Brixham, and that owing to the poor condition of her...
None (5)
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 6.15 onthe evening of the 29th of March, 1954, the Orlock Head coastguard rang up to say that a keeper in the Maidens lighthouse was ill. He asked if the life-boat would take a relief man to it and land the patient...
Fantome
Selsey, Sussex.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of May 18th, 1955, the coast- guard rang up to say that a sailing boat had capsized three and a half miles south of Thorney Island, and that a helicopter was on its way to her. About 1.15 a...
A Rubber Tyre
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 3.47 on the after- noon of the 2nd of September, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that some people were drifting out to sea on a rubber tyre off Walcott. At 3.55 the No. 1 life-boat Henry Blogg was launched. There was...
A Dinghy (2)
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 28th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat appeared to be in difficulties and drift- ing off Porthdinllaen Point. The life- boat...