LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
NORTH DEAL.—Signal rockets and guns having been fired by the Gull Light-vessel on the 4th January, the Life-boat Mary Somerville was launched at about 6.15 P.M., and proceeded towards the Goodwin Sands. The wind was blowing moderately from...
Category: Services
The S.S. Sirius
Humber, Yorkshire.—At. 12.10 on the afternoon of the 13th of February, 1953, while the life-boat City of Brad- ford II was on service to the S.S.
Monkton Combe, of Bristol, the Spurn Point coastguard reported that the S.S....
A Dinghy
Saved from drowning A 71-YEAR-OLD MAN was out fishing alone in his 9ft wooden dinghy on the afternoon of Monday September 9, 1985.
The weather was fair, there was a moderate south-south-westerly breeze, force 4, with a...
Mary E.
Crew member swims through heavy surf and scales cliff to survivor Simon Chadwick, a member of Bude lifeboat crew, has received a letter of thanks from the Chairman of the Institution following his first service call in the station's D...
14-year-old Will And His Mum Carolyne Are Glad To Be Reunited
14-year-old Will and his mum carolyne are glad to be reunited Photo: RNLI/Eleanor Driscoll. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Medoc
A large vessel was observed on the outer end of St. Patrick's Causeway, about twelve miles from the shore on the 19th November, and two boats from her were seen to be making for the land. It was blowing fresh from the north-west at the...
Globe (1)
St. David's, and Angle, Pembroke- shire.—At 10.25 on the night of the 28th of March, 1952, the St. David's coastguard telephoned the St. David's life-boat station that red flares had been seen eight miles north-west by north of...
Moorlands
Montrose, Angus.—At 10.10 on the night of the 25th of December, 1952, the Usan coastguard telephoned that a vessel five miles east-south-east of Montrose had wirelessed a distress signal, and at 10.35 the life-boat The Good Hope was launched...
Admiral Sir Wilfrid R. Patterson
K.C.B., C.V.O., C.B.E., who died on the 5th of December, 1954, at the age of 61, had been a member of the Com- mittee of Management for seven years.
He first joined the committee in 1947 as an ex-officio member when he was...
Category: Obituaries
CORRECTION
Mr. J. P. Morris, of Coventry, who is a member of the Life-boat Enthusiasts' Society, was quick to spot an inaccuracy in the caption to the photograph of the Workington life-boat which appeared on page 493 of the December, 1968, issue Of...
Category: Articles