LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
February
Launches 61 Lives rescued 72
FEBRUARY 1ST. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 12.24 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that red flares had been seen four miles south-west-by-west of Clacton pier, and half an hour later...
Category: Services
February (1)
DOWNINGS, CO. DONEGAL. While out fishing off Innisboffin Island on the 27th of November, 1942, the motor fishing boat Star of Hope, of Downings, foundered and sank while her herring nets were being hauled, and a fresh north-west breeze was...
Category: Services
Annual Report. 1887
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's, on Saturday, 26th day of March, 1887, The Right Honourable Lord GEORGE HAMILTON, M.P., First Lord of the...
Category: Annual Reports
Frequent Flyer
Southend-on-Sea’s hovercraft crew had a busy day on 23 May.
Their first job, with the local Coastguard team, was to search an area of low water for an unexploded mine. They found it, marked it with a buoy and informed a...
Category: Articles
(Above and Below) When Uninflated, the New Jacket Is Extremely Compact and Doesn't Impede the Wearer's Movements
(Above and Below) When Uninflated, The New Jacket Is Extremely Compact and Doesn'T Impede The Wearer's Movements. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
United States Life-Saving Service
IN the report which has been recently issued by the General Superintendent of the Life-saving Service, for the fiscal year ended 30th June 1884, it is stated that there were then 201 Life-Saving Stations under their management, 156 being on...
Category: Articles
Award to IRB Man
The Royal Humane Society has awarded Mr. J. A. Bate of the Bude IRB crew the Society's testimonial on parchment in recognition of his services on 17th June, 1968, when he saved a 4-year-old girl from the water (THE LIFE-BOAT, September,...
Category: Awards
Rnli President Goes to Sea on His Namesake
The Duke of Kent (centre) watches as the Rother class Duke of Kent is brought ashore after his trip in fresh conditions. He was accompanied by the RNLI's director, Lt Cdr Brian Miles (centre left) and the chief of operations Capt George... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Your shout
I live on a Dutch barge moored on the Cadogan Pier in Chelsea. One evening I had retired to bed and was drifting off with the shipping forecast murmuring in the background when a Baskevillian scream punched its way through the open porthole....
Category: Articles
Ways and Means
Turning turf into money If your branch has a small racecourse in its territory it can be a money spinner.
I say small because our branch also has a large course within its boundaries, but as a fund raising area it is dead...
Category: Donations