LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Converted Ship's Life-Boat Alert
POLICE CLEARED WAY At 12.30 p.m. on :8th May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy was being driven ashore in a moderate to fresh southeasterly wind and moderate sea at Barmston.
The tide...
Helicopter Cover
HELICOPTER COVER THE Department of Trade and Industry has placed a contract with Bristow Helicopters Ltd.
for the provision of a Whirlwind Series III helicopter for SAR work. The helicopter, which is based at Mansion, Kent,...
Category: Articles
RNLI FAMILY: THE LIFE
Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
120 years at Walmer
Walmer Lifeboat Station is celebrating the dedication of three volunteers who, between them, have over 120 years
of service....
Category: Articles
Emilie
PADSTOW, CORNWALL. — On the 7th April, a strong gale from N.W. was experienced, accompanied by a heavy sea, and by rain squalls at intervals. At about 3.50 P.M., information having been received by means of the telephone, that a vessel was...
Life-Boat Song
SING Ho! ho 1 ho! how the wild winds blow, And the breakers in fury foam, While, with thund'ring roar, o'er the storm-swept shore, The waves in their frenzy roam! Oh, many a ship, in the storm-fiend's grip, Would add to the...
Category: Songs
The S.S. Taunton
The s.s. Taunton, of Liverpool, whilst bound from New- port to Rouen, on the 27th December, with a cargo of stores for the French government, was in danger owing to her anchors not holding. When she was about one mile from Gwythian Beach,...
Valkyrie
Holyhead, Anglesey - At 1.25 p.m.
2nd September, 1968, the coastguard told the assistant honorary secretary that the motor boat Valkyrie had broken down 100 yards off shore and required assistance. Fifteen minutes later the...
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's lifebelt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy, 22 Ibs., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy, 22 Ibs., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides himself...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Asse and an Aeroplane
OCT. 17TH. - AMBLE, AND BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND. A steamer had been reported in distress. Her position was given as nine miles S.E. of Coquet Island, and the Amble motor life-boat was launched.
A warning of an air-raid had...