LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailing Boat and Ampico 2
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 6.55 on the evening of the 7th of June, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a cabin cruiser was making very heavy weather five miles south-south-west of Mumbles Head. At 7.10 the life-boat William...
Margate Life-Boatman's Death
IN the early hours of Sunday, the 6th of November, 1949 (see page 402) the Margate life-boat was called out on service and one of the crew, Benjamin Frost, cycled down to the boathouse at the end of the pier. As soon as he got into the boat...
Category: Obituaries
SAFETY NET
Thanks to your support, the RNLI is helping to make the seas a safer place for the people who put fish on our tables
Commercial fishing in the cold, rough seas around the UK and Republic of Ireland is a hazardous...
Category: Articles
Japan
A LIFE-BOAT service much on the same lines as our own is now being established in this wonderful country under the patronage of one of the Royal Princes.
For this purpose information has been sought from and gladly...
Category: Articles
Malabar 13
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 6.25 on the evening of the llth of August, 1951, a member of the local life-boat committee telephoned that a yacht taking part in the Fastnet Race had been dismasted west of the North East Shingles Buoy. She was...
A Warming Drink After Their Three-Hour Service for (I to R): Eric Mcgonagle Helmsman Michael Gambrill Nigel Scammell and Richard Judge Photograph By Courte
A warming drink after their three-hour service for (I to r): Eric McGonagle, Helmsman Michael Gambrill, Nigel Scammell and Richard Judge. photograph by courtesy of Whitstable Times. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Scene 1
The smack Lucky Hit, of Lowestoft, after being driven on a sandbank, on 18th February, 1938, was taken in tow by a tug. She was sinking, and the Lowestoft motor life-boat rescued two of her crew. The other three remained on board, and the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Fishing Smack
12th October. A fishing smack was reported to, be ashore, but no trace of her could be found.—Rewards, £32 17s..
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In response to signals of distress fired by the Cork light-vessel on the 30th October, the Steam Life-boat City of Glasgow was sent to sea. On reaching the light- vessel, the master reported that a vessel was burning flares to the...