LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
EPIRBs (Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons)
EPIRBs (Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons) are portable satellite communication units (see a selection below), designed to send an automated distress signal to search and rescue authorities ashore. The RNLI recommends that small... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Rubber Dinghy
NOVEMBER 17TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
At 10.8 A.M. the naval officer in charge at Ramsgate sent a message through the coastguard that an object. like a rubber boat was drifting two and a half miles north of Foreness.
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A Dinghy (2)
JULY 24TH. - ABERDEEN. At 9.5 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that an aeroplane had seen a yellow dinghy about seven miles to the south-east of Aberdeen.
At 9.25 the No. 1 motor life-boat Emma Constance was...
Rescue By American Helicopter
Ix the early hours of the morning of the 27th of November, 1954, the South Goodwin lightvessel began to drift. The first man on shore to have any suspicion that something might be amiss with the lightvessel was the Deal coastguard, who...
Category: Services
The Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain John Daniel, of Aberystwyth.
He joined the crew in 1911, was ap- pointed bowman in 1933, second cox- swain in 1936 and coxswain at the beginning of 1943. He retired at the end of...
Category: Articles
R.N.L.I. Sends Irbs to Pakistan Disaster
It took the R.N.L.I, just 36 hours to find 20 inshore rescue boats with engines and spares for an airlift from Stansted, Essex, to Dacca to aid victims of the flood disaster in East Pakistan. The two volunteers were Lieutenant David Stogdon... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Concorde Noses Down the Thames for Its Last Journey
One of the RNLI Thames lifeboats turned out to see Concorde making her final journey during April. It was an unusual event because instead of flying at an altitude of 11 miles, Concorde was 'sailing' along the Thames aboard a barge.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
THE DEATH of Captain Nigel Dixon was a serious and sudden loss to the RNLI.
He became Secretary of the Institution.
a t i t l e which was later altered to that of Director, at a difficult time in 1970. Not...
Category: Articles
Hawkinge, of Chepstow
The Life-boat Rochdale, in answer to signals of distress shown from the schooner Hawk, of Chep- stow, was, with considerable difficulty and persistent efforts, launched to her assist- ance on the morning of Sunday, the 2nd Feb., and having...
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Galway Bay. At 7.15 on the morning of the 26th of February, 1959, the local doctor requested the use of the life- boat to take a child, who had pushed a nail up his nostril, to the mainland for hospital treatment. The life-boat Mabel Marion...