LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fishing Vessel (1)
Faster... and further The abilities of the new generation of fast lifeboats were highlighted on the very day that this page of The Lifeboat went to press - with Eyemouth's Trent Barclaycard Crusader going to the aid of a stricken fishing...
Indian Chief
RAMSGATE.—Captain BRAINE, the harbour- master of Ramsgate, in reporting the noble service rendered by the Ramsgate Life-boat on the 6th January, on the occasion of the wreck of the ship Indian Chief, on the Long Sands, states that the vessel...
A Motor Cruiser
Girl trapped RED FLARES off Fairhaven, on the east side of Great Cumbrae Island, were sighted from • Largs lifeboathouse at 1938 on Sunday July 24, 1983. Maroons were fired; an attempt was made to ring the honorary secretary's telephone...
RNLI News
Newspoint In Reserve The financial reserves held by charities came underthe media spotlight recently as a result of a television pro- gramme on Channel 4.
The programme asked whether it was wrong for charities with large...
Category: Articles
Lady Amanda
Injured couple rescued from yacht aground in heavy surfThe Chairman of the RNLI, Michael Vernon, has written a letter of congratulation to helmsman William Walker-Jones of Criccieth's inshore lifeboat following the rescue of two people...
La Francoise (1)
French trawlermen saved IN THE WAKE OF the hurricane which swept across South East England in the early hours of October 16, 1987, many of the boats berthed at Newhaven Harbour—ripped from their moorings in the 90-knot winds—had been blown...
Casamance
FEBRUARY 17TH. - HARTLEPOOL, AND SEAHAM, DURHAM, AND REDCAR, AND WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. Shortly after midnight a message came to the Hartlepool honorary secretary’s house from the coastguard that the life-boat was wanted. The honorary secretary...
Polydena
The Birmingham No. 2 life-boat at Caister assisted to save the Norwegian schooner Polydesa and her crew of 5 men, which vessel had stranded pn the Cross Sand,.
Hellena, of Alloa
The Miriam life-boat at Buckie rescued the crew of 4 men of the sloop Hellene, of Alloa, which became a total wreck off Buckie.
Naiad, of Colchester
The Parsee life-boat, at Palling, went out to the stranded schooner Naiad, of Col- chester, and remained alongside the vessel some time, rendering assistance.