LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Conqueror
— At 3.10 A.M. on the 15th January informa- tion was telephoned from the Pier Head that flares had been seen about one and a half miles from the pier in the direction of the Lowway Buoy.
Putting off in a moderate S.W. gale,...
Lieut. Keppel H. Foote, R.N.
Lieut. Keppel H. Foote, R.N.. who died on 6th May at the age of eighty- five, had spent twenty-nine years of his life in the service of the Institu- tion. Born in 1850, he entered the navy in 1863, and served in it for eighteen years....
Category: Obituaries
Skugga
Dungeness, Kent.—At 9.25 on the night of the llth of September, 1955, the Lade coastguard rang up to say that a boat was burning red flares east of Rye Harbour. Ten minutes later the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched. The sea...
The S.S. Yewarch
TAKING OUT A DOCTOR Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.— At 9.19 in the morning of the 30th of December, 1947, the Gorleston coast- guard telephoned that a vessel one mile east-south-east of the coastguard sta- tion had signalled for...
The S.S. Wandle
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.— At 6.48 in the evening of the 3rd of June, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that the s.s. Wandle, of London, was approaching the harbour and wished to land a sick man. The motor life- boat Louise...
Santa Maria
Newhaven, Sussex. At 6.50 on the evening of the 12th of July, 1959, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a message from the police at Brighton that a small yacht was in difficulties close inshore off Rotting- dean. At seven...
Fundraising Region Changes
As from 1 September 1993 the Central England and Southern fundraising regions ceased to exist, and their respective Regional Offices closed. The branches previously in those regions have been transferred to other regions as listed below.<...
Category: Branches
The Patrol Boat Havoernen of the Royal Danish Navy
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk.—On the morning of the 3rd of December, 1952, the fast patrol boat Havoernen, of the Royal Danish Navy, with a crew of twenty-four, which was taking part in exercises with British coastal...
Bountiful (1)
All in a season's work RNLI Divisional Inspector Colin Williams gives a round up of all things operational this Spring in the island of Ireland Our crews experience everything that the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean can muster, as...
Whose sea is it anyway?
The RNLI's lifeboats operate to 100 miles from shore – but who controls the waters they navigate?
Freedom of the Seas
Across the world, land has been divided by mankind...
Category: Articles