LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gladys
At 7.35 A.M. on the 19th March the Coastguard reported that a vessel was on the Mixen Reef, flying signals of distress. The crew of the Life-boat Lucy Newbon were at once assembled and the boat launched, but just after she had taken the...
Mr. H. A. Bryden
Mr. H. A. Bryden, who died in September, 1937, at the age of eighty- three, was distinguished as an interna- tional athlete, sportsman, traveller and naturalist, and as the author of many books on these subjects. He came to the Institution...
Category: Obituaries
Boy and Uncle Rescued By Boatman
ON the morning of the 12th of June, 1960, an eight-year-old boy, who was on an inflatable rubber lilo, was seen being carried down Wells channel on the Norfolk coast by wind and tide. The time then was 11.30, two hours after high water. The...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (83)
MAY 13TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY, AND PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
A pilot was reported to have baled out from a British aeroplane about eleven miles in a north-westerly direction from Porthdinllaen Point, but nothing was...
Manchester Merit
INJURED SEAMEN TAKEN OFF AN injured seaman aboard the container ship Manchester Merit led to the Appledore, Devon, life-boat being called to her at 6.51 p.m. on 9th January. At that time she was 40 miles south west of the Smalls...
Capt. R. L. Hamer, D.S.O., R.N.
CAPTAIN RICHARD LLOYD HAMER, D.S.O., R.N., who died on the 16th of December, 1951, at the age of 67, was for twenty years in the service of the Institution. When he came to it in 1925, he had served for many years, before and during the war...
Category: Obituaries
Sea Fury
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 8th of April.
1955. the life-boat coxswain reported that he had seen a yacht in Hilbre Swash and thought she would be in a dangerous position if the weather...
Lost at sea
4 September: Hunstanton After receiving reports of a narrow boat in difficulty, the volunteer crew of Hunstanton lifeboat were called to investigate. They found onboard a lone sailor and two dogs. When they...
Category: Articles
Saving lives in Bangladesh
An RNLI team travelled to Bangladesh in March to help set up the country’s first lifesaving club. And, on 16 April, club member Mohammed Abdul Sukkur saved his first life, rescuing a drowning tourist from a rip...
Category: Articles
Scottish Maid and Seaspray
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire - At 5.10 p.m. on 22nd May, 1966, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that a yacht was ashore on the Cardiff sands.
The life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans was launched at 5.15 in a gale force...