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Yachts and Dinghies (1)

Date: Summer 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 573

A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...

Etoile Polaire

Date: November 1912

Volume: 21

Issue: 246

At about 9.40 A.M. on llth February, during a S. by W. gale with a heavy sea, a barque was observed about three miles S.S.E. of Newlyn pierhead, running dead before the wind and right in on the land. As it was obvious that unless the master...

Latifa

Date: Winter 1977

Volume: 44

Issue: 459

Hurricane tow AT ABOUT 1515 on Thursday, October 14, 1976, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Weymouth lifeboat station that the 52-ton yacht Latifa had requested assistance off Portland Bill. She had damaged sails, a shattered...

Ways and Means

Date: Winter 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 507

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

(Above! the Sophisticated Fibre Reinforced Composite (Frc) Construction Gives Light Weight With Strength But Needs Much Planning at the Design Stage

Date: Spring 1991

Volume: 52

Issue: 516

(Above!. The sophisticated fibre reinforced composite (FRC) construction gives light weight with strength, but needs much planning at the design stage.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Fishing Boats

Date: October 1947

Volume: 32

Issue: 343

YORKSHIRE FISHING FLEETS IN PERIL Runswick, Yorkshire.—At 6.0 in the morning of the 8th of April, 1947, the local fishing fleet had put to sea in fine weather, but by nine o'clock a north- east gale had risen, causing a very...

None (3)

Date: December 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 370

Walmer.Kent.—On the 6th of August, 1954, two boys walked round the cliff from St. Margaret's to Kingsdown, but were trapped by the tide at Kingsdown. They both tried to swim round the cliff, but one of them got into difficulties. His...

Your Letters

Date: Summer 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 529

Lifeboats at Dunkirk With reference to the letter in the Summer issue regarding the Poole lifeboat Thomas Kirk Wright and her work during the Dunkirk evacuation in May/June 1940.

A total of 19 RNLI lifeboats took part in...

Category: Correspondence

Celia's supporting role

Date: Autumn 2011

Volume: 61

Issue: 597 Lifeboat Magazine Autumn 2011

A stellar acting career and a passion for the sea unite in Celia Imrie’s latest role – and thoughts of lifeboats are never far away

As someone who regularly takes the ferry journey from...

Category: Articles

Black-Eyed Susan

Date: February 1881

Volume: 11

Issue: 119

At 11 A.M., the Life-boat again went out, and rescued the crew of five men from the schooner Slack-Eyed Susan, of Bideford, which had also gone ashore, and subsequently broke up. The Life-boat had to be pulled with great difficulty along the...