LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 12.05 p.m. on 25th July, 1965, a sailing dinghy, with two people on board, capsized in Peterhead Bay. At 12.20 the life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was launched in a gentle north-westerly breeze and smooth...
High Seas
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
Lerwick - Scotland Division Lerwick, in the Shetland Isles, lies in the midst of one of the world's wildest and most unfriendly waters - severe gales can be expected...
Category: Articles
The Life-Belt In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, and to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles
The Belgian Yacht Phaedra
Lifeboat tows yacht to safety of Dunkirk The Dover coxswain /assistant mechanic Anthony Hawkins and crew members David Pascall and Rodney Goldsack have been a warded the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum following an eight-hour...
Monte Gurugu
Appledore, Clovelly, and Df racombe, Devon.
—On the 13th of November, 1949, all three life-boats went to the help of the Spanish steamer Monte Gurugu, which was foundering at the entrance to the Bristol Channel, and rescued...
Staff Retirements
Members of the Institution's staff who retired in 1965 after more than fifteen years' service were: Mr. V. G. Parsons, 40 years. Assistant Superintendent of Depot.
Mr. J. A. Ashford, 44 years. Senior Clerk at...
Category: Articles
Weymouth Memories
Your series looking at lifeboat stations from the air in the Spring 1996 issue, reminded me that I had come across a 'snapshot' of the Weymouth lifeboat taken in 1936.
I thought readers might like to see the sharp... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Carol Sandra and Northwind III
Fishing boats wrecked TWO GERMAN STUDENTS, walking on the cliffs near Breil Nook on Flamborough Head on the morning of Monday, May7, 1984, smelt diesel oil and, looking into the water, saw what appeared to be the overturned hull of a...
Shoreline
IT is ALWAYS pleasing to report that one of our Shoreline clubs has been actively involved in fund raising. Such a club is No 8 at Peterborough which, in conjunction with the local RNLI branch, ran a very successful SOS day in Ferry Meadows...
Category: Articles
Irish Ash
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT BALLYCOTTON DECEMBER 23RD. - BALLY-COTTON, CO. CORK. At nine in the morning a message was received at the station that a vessel was in distress about five miles south of Power Head. She could be seen from Ballycotton,...