LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fundraising Five
Brighton fundraisers organised a sponsored walk in July and, despite only five participants, raised £700.
The photograph shows the intrepid walkers with the Mayor of Brighton and Hove who has nominated the RNLI as the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Top) Visitors Swarm Aboard 17-24,
(top) Visitors swarm aboard 17-24, a new Trent class which was un-named at the time but which will become Dora Foster McDougall and be allocated to the relief fleet. Astern of her was the Severn 17-11, The Whiteheads which will be allocated... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Yachts and Pleasure Boats Represent Almost 60% of Lifeboat Launches
Yachts and pleasure boats represent almost 60% of lifeboat launches, so these were the first target for the RNLI's Sea Safety initiative. Even the most well-found vessel can find herself in trouble, but the aim of the initiative is to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Angle
ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE On the 18th December, 1943, the Angle life-boat rescued six of the crew of the motor vessel Thor, of Rotterdam.
COXSWAIN JAMES WATKINS was awarded the silver medal..
Category: Medals
1940
1940 was the busiest year in the history of the Life-boat Service.
Life-boats were launched to the rescue 1081 times. Of these launches 640 were to vessels in distress on account of the war. Life-boats rescued 2056 lives....
Category: Articles
A Ship
On the 27th November a boat with four men in her was upset in the entrance to Teignmouth harbour, when attempting to board a vessel coming in.
One man succeeded in getting on board the ship, but the boat herself, with two...
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
THE Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Committee of this Fund was held on the 26th ultimo, and was presided over by the Right Hon. Sir RALPH H. KNOX, K.C.B. Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Hon. Secretary, reported that the Fund had continued to...
Category: Meetings
Lleyn Peninsula: Abersoch Criccieth Porthdinllaen and Pwllheli By Joan Davies
JUTTING OUT boldly into the Irish Sea, open to winter gales from most points of the compass, the beautiful Lleyn Peninsula of North Wales has its share of hazards to shipping. Over the years many vessels have been wrecked on its shores and...
Category: Articles
Excel (1)
On 28th to 29th October, the night following the service of the St. Mary's Life-boat, the gales reached their worst, striking with special violence on the coast of North Wales and Lancashire.
That night nine Life-boats...
A Noble Rescue
ON Friday night, the 23rd October, 1868, a Government lighter named the Devon, was making her way round the Land's End to a western port. She was strongly built, and a good sea-boat, and could well enough have weathered the hard gale...
Category: Articles