LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rnli News
NEWS POINT FIRST AMONG EQUALS Those who find themselves explaining how the RNLI operates, how it is organised and how it is funded are very often asked, "What do other countries do? Is the RNLI unique?". The answer could have been...
Category: Articles
Fishing Cobles (4)
STAITHES AND RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.
—At about 7 o'clock on the morning of the llth March, about twenty of the Staithes fishing-cobles proceeded to sea.
The weather then was fine, but there was a strong...
Mr. Augustine Courtauld
Mr. Augustine Courtauld, the famous explorer, who had been a member of the Committee of Management since 1951, died on the 3rd of March, 1959, at the age of 54. He served on the finance, boat and construction and operations...
Category: Obituaries
The Cardiff Steamer Strait Fisher
JANUARY 3RD. - PENLEE, CORNWALL.
When off Cape Cornwall the Cardiff steamer Strait Fisher capsized. Her cargo had shifted. A strong north-west wind was blowing, with a very rough sea. The weather was cold. The motor...
Ellin
On the morning of the 4th February news was received from the coastguard that a steamer was ashore at Crowlink, and the Eastbourne motor life-boat Jane Holland and the Newhaven motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott were launched at about...
Readers' Letters and Information
Dear Editor Having been a Shoreline supporter for many years and now an Offshore member, I thought I would write in and air my views on lilos, rubber rings and inflatable dinghies, which are sold at seaside shops: can't we get these toys...
Category: Correspondence
Damia B
Blyth, Northumberland.— At 4.51 in the morning of the 5th of July, 1949, the coastguard reported that a small yacht appeared to be in difficulties to the south of the entrance to Blyth Har- bour. She had made no distress signal, but as it...
Rosebank
Wick, Caithness-shire. At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 2nd of December, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Rosebank of Wick appeared to be in distress in Sinclair Bay. At 3.40 the life-boat City of...
Eagle Book of Ships
THE Eagle Book of Ships and Boats (Hulton Press, 15/-)., which is excel- lently produced and illustrated, has been published at a most reasonable price. It includes sections on the Royal Navy, the Merchant Navy, safety at sea and sailing....
Category: Articles
A Rubber Dinghy
Hartlepool, Co. Durham.—At 12.45 on the afternoon of the 26th of July, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the police had reported two boys drifting out to sea in a rubber dinghy off Seaton Carew. The life-boat The Princess Royal...