LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
City of Bristol
WITHERNSEA.—The fishing smack City of Bristol, of Hull, stranded about a mile S. of the Life-boat house during a S.E. by S. wind, a heavy snowstorm, and a chopping eea, on the 5th of January. The Admiral Sous Life-boat was launched at 9.15 A...
Lionel Lukin - Lifeboat Inventor
Denied credit during his lifetime, Lionel Lukin has since been acknowledged as 'the first who built a Life Boat'. To commemorate the inventor's 250th birthday last May, assistant public relations officer Robin Sharp relates the...
Category: Articles
An Ex-Airborne Life-Boat
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About 6.0 in the evening, on the 22nd of July, 1951, the coxswain saw a small yacht making heavy weather on a northerly course and asked the Wal- ton-on-the-Naze coastguard to keep a watch on her. At 6.23 the coast...
William, of Tonsberg
On the 27th of December, the Norwegian bark, William, of Tonsberg, ran ashore in thick and squally weather, near Camber, about three miles on the north side of Eye Harbour. The life-boat at No. 31 Tower, on the .opposite side of the harbour,...
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Margate, Kent.—About three o'clock on the afternoon of the 9th of August, 1952, the Margate coastguard tele- phoned that a large yacht appeared to be in trouble approximately nine miles north by west of Margate. At 3.10 the life-boat...
Lightvessel Breaks Adrift
AT 9.49 on the evening of the 12th November, 1961, the Deal coastguard informed the Walmer honorary secre- tary that the East Goodwin lightvessel, which had been buffeted by heavy seas, had broken adrift from her moorings and was driving...
Category: Services
Launch of Courage on our Coasts
The work of award-winning photographer Nigel Millard is to be showcased in a new book and exhibition for the RNLI. Nigel is a volunteer crew member at Torbay Lifeboat Station and for the last 2 years he has dedicated his professional life to...
Category: Articles
Aghia Eirini
DEC. 3 R D . - WALMER, KENT. The coastguard had reported flares, and the lifeboat put out, in a southerly gale, with very heavy seas and hail squalls. She found the Greek steamer Aghia Eirini. The steamer did not need the life-boat‘s help...
Atlantic award
The Walter and Elizabeth Groombridge award is made each year for the most meritorious service in an Atlantic B class lifeboat. The RNLI Trustee Committee met on 23 July and agreed that the 2007 award should be made to Flamborough Helmsman...
Category: Articles
Beryl
Two men had gone out fishing on the 6th November, in the motor fishing boat Beryl, of Appledore, but had not returned.
At 10.40 P.M. on the 7th, with moder- ate E. breeze blowing and a moderate sea, the Motor Life-boat...