LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Spring
Flares were seen from the Barber Sand at about 1 A.M. on the 5th April, during a N.N.E. wind and a very heavy sea. The No. 2 Life-boat was launched, proceeded in the direction, and found a fishing-vessel on the sand. About this time a flare...
Rescue from Coaster With Forty-Five Degree List
At 7.30 on the morning of the 5th of November, 1957, the honorary secretary of the New Brighton station, Captain G. Ayre, learnt from the Formby coastguard that the /. B. Kee, a coaster of 211 tons, of Castletown, Tsle of Man, was in...
Category: Services
Bess
Barrow, Lancashire. — On the morn- ing of the 31st of July, 1949, a strong west-south-west breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. At 5.13 the Walney coastguard reported that a trawler had spoken to a motor yacht west of More- cambe Bay...
Feature: a Day to Remember
It was a memorable moment on a truly proud day for the Institution that saw Her Majesty The Queen, the RNLI's patron, declare the College officially open. Volunteers, supporters, staff and locals turned out in their hundreds to get a...
Category: Articles
Air Bag Installation
BUILT TO SPECIFICATIONS probably not exceeded by any ship afloat; subjected to exhaustive commissioning trials; maintained with jealous care by coxswain, mechanic and crew; watched over by divisional inspector, district surveyor and engineer...
Category: Articles
RNLi Membership
MEMBERSHIP of the R.N.L.I, is being introduced to provide an additional source of regular revenue over and above that raised by branches and guilds. There will be three forms of membership.
These are: (a) Life Members: a...
Category: Articles
A Gallant Coxswain
THE retirement on pension of John Owston, for forty-one years Coxswain of the Scarborough Life-boat, is an event in our annals which provides an opportunity of giving some brief record of a noble life which has been devoted to the service of...
Category: Articles
A Speed Boat
Speedboat AT 1734 on Bank Holiday Monday, August 1986, the crews of Sheerness' 44ft Waveney and 16ft D class inflatable lifeboats were alerted by the duty officer at the Medway Port Office, following reports from Thames Coastguards of a...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
CAHORE, IRELAND.—A branch of the Na- tional Life-boat Institution has been founded at Cahore, on the coast of Wexford, Ireland.
The Blackwater Bank, extending for many miles along this part of the coast, has been from time...
Category: Articles
A Motor Fishing Boat
Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.—At 2.45 in the afternoon of the 26th of November, 1951, the honorary secre- tary was on the sea front and saw a local motor fishing boat two miles to the west of the life-boat station drift- ing rapidly. She had...