LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Books
• AH At Sea, a catch of true and tall stories trawled by writer and broadcaster Libby Purves, has been published by Fontana to mark the 160th anniversary of the RNLI, a milestone reached on March 4 this year. Here can be found all the...
Category: Articles
Double jeopardy
Two mayday calls in quick succession put Walton and Frinton lifeboat crew on high alert
motoryacht’s two crew issued a mayday just before 1pm on Monday 21 June, after suffering engine failure. The boat was drifting towards...
Category: Articles
News
Welcome to Sir Jock The RNLI has a new Chairman following the retirement of Peter Nicholson CBECommenting on the Trustee Committee's appointment of Admiral Sir Jock Slater CCB LVO DL in July, RNU Chief Executive Andrew Freemantle said:...
Category: Articles
Shark Tempest
Tenby, Pembrokeshire - At 4.20 p.m.
on 12th April, 1968, a report was received that a small boat was firing flares 500 yards from Stackpool quay. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at 4.28 in a moderate easterly...
Feature: Extreme Search and Rescue
The seas off the north of Scotland and around Orkney and Shetland can be unforgiving and, in the worst of weathers, will catch out even the largest of ships. The safety of mariners and sea users in the area is overseen by the Maritime and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
November, 1901. B. AND BE.
The 35th Annual Meeting of the Committee of the Fund was held on the 17th ultimo, and was presided over by Sir RALPH H. KNOX, K.C.B. Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the honorary secretary, reported that,...
Category: Meetings
Turkestan
PORTMADOC.—During the forenoon of the 18th February the ship Turkestan, of Liverpool, bound to that port from New York, got ashore near the bar at the entrance to this harbour. It was blowing fresh at S.S.W., with too heavy a sea to admit of...
Aphrodite
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 7.44 on the night of the 8th of August, 1951, the Shoreham coastguard tele- phoned that a small ship was on fire one mile south-east of Shoreham Harbour.
At 7.59 the life-boat Rosa Woodd and...
Danube
BROADSTAIRS.—At 4.45 A.M. on the 29th May, the Life-boat Francet Forbes Barton was launched and proceeded to the brig Danube, of Whitby, coal laden from Shields for Dover, which was stranded on the N. Goodwin Sands. A N.N.W. wind was blowing...
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DEER RESCUED Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 7.59 a.m. on Tuesday, the 25th May, 1965, the police informed the honorary secretary that a deer which was being chased by them had jumped from the pier and was swimming strongly to the north-east...