LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Busy Holiday Months
THE summer of this year has not been as busy a time for the life-boats as the record summer of 1948, but during June, July and August life-boats were launched 169 times and rescued 92 lives.
In 88 of those 169 launches the...
Category: Services
Rewards for Saving Life from Shipwreck
of the most important features in the original organization of the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION—independently of the establishment of Life-boats by it—was to encourage laudable efforts by every available means to save life from shipwreck on...
Category: Articles
Civil Servants' Gift
The first of the new 52-foot glass reinforced plastic life-boats to be built from the latest 52-foot prototype fast afloat boat (see pictures page 109) designed by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is to be paid for by voluntary...
Category: Donations
Orchids for Aphrodite – Aegean odyssey
Orchids for Aphrodite – Aegean odyssey
by Ursula Haselden
Review by Tracy Carey
Having taken many holidays in Turkey and Greece myself, this book appealed immediately.
This...
Category: Articles
Deja vu
In a candid letter, sailor and RNLI supporter John Sinclair explains why he had to be rescued twice in the early hours of 22 March
'I anchored my 6m yacht Blue Dragon in Moelfre Bay...
Category: Articles
Blue Waters
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 2.25 in the afternoon of the 16th of September, 1949, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that a message had been received from the Llandudno coast- guard that a yacht bound for Liverpool was making heavy weather....
Head over hooves
TRAMORE | 16 NOVEMBER
Volunteers from Tramore RNLI went to the rescue of a bull stranded on a rocky ledge after it fell from a clifftop into the sea. With the animal secured by rope, and a...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Summary of Its Proceedings from 1st January, 1860, to 31st December, 1861
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Category: Annual Reports
Trawlers Ben Bheula and Cyelse
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. — At 10.40 in the morning of the llth of March, 1949, the Duntulm coastguard reported that the Fleetwood steam trawler Ben Bheula was leaking and in need of help two miles east of Castlebay, and the life-boat...
Via
Bed port fires having been observed on the outside part of the Middle Scroby Sand, while a moderate gale was blowing from the N. accompanied by a heavy sea, on the 4th July, the crew of the Lifeboat Beanehamp were summoned and at 3.5 A.M....