LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Chantecler
Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire.—Early in the afternoon of the 16th March the auxiliary yacht Chantecler, of Lytham, broke away from her moorings. A strong east breeze was blowing, with amoderate sea. As no one was on board the yacht, the motor...
Blue Bell
Bembridge, Isle of Wight - At 4.43 p.m. on 1st May, 1969, a local resident told the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing flares about one mile east of the life-boat station. At 4.54 the life-boat Jesse Lumb slipped her moorings in a...
Volumus
YACHT LEAKING At 6.50 a.m. on nth May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was leaking badly one mile off Sandwich Bay. The life-boat Elizabeth Elson, on temporary duty at the station, proceeded at 7.10 in light...
Tomaray
Dover: On Saturday September 10, 1983, a day of north-westerly gales and rough seas, Dover's 50ft Thames lifeboat Rotary Service, under the command of Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic Anthony Hawkins, was just returning to harbour from one...
Coxswain Michael Scales St.Peter Port
Coxswain Michael Scales, St Peter Port On October 11, 1983, Coxswain Scales rescued seven people aboard the yacht Wild Rocket in a force 8 west-north-westerly gale. He succeeded in manoeuvring the Arun class lifeboat Sir William Arnold close... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mid-morning Mayday
15 June: Yarmouth, Solent At 10.33am a mayday call alerted the Yarmouth lifeboat to a yacht in trouble in gale force winds. A female crew member had been hit by the boom and suffered a serious injury. The...
Category: Articles
Bountiful
All in a season's work RNLI Divisional Inspector Colin Williams gives a round up of all things operational this Spring in the island of Ireland Our crews experience everything that the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean can muster, as...
"Man the Life-Boat!" An Acrostic. By a Yorkshire Clergyman
The Royal National Life-boat Institution Rescues Numberless Lives; Incites Really Noble, Laudable Inquiries; Reckons Necessary Lofty Ideas; Rewards News; Laments Indolence; Relieves Nautical Labourers Immediately;...
Category: Poetry
Bountiful (1)
All in a season's work RNLI Divisional Inspector Colin Williams gives a round up of all things operational this Spring in the island of Ireland Our crews experience everything that the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean can muster, as...