LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailing Dinghy
Swanage, Dorset - At 4.38 p.m. on 26th October, 1968, it was learnt that a sailing dinghy with five people on board had capsized in the Peveril Ledge tide race. The life-boat R.L.P.
was launched at 4.47. The tide was ebbing...
Fishing Boats
At 11.2 A.M.
on the 21st February, the coastguard reported that a number of fishing boats belonging to Pittenweem were making for shelter owing to the bad conditions of wind and sea. A strong S.W. gale was blowing with a...
Lizzie
RAMSGATE.—Signal guns having been fired by the Gull light-ship on the 24th June, the Bradford Life-boat went out at 3.30 A.M., and proceeded to the Goodwin Sands, where the schooner Lizzie, of Fleetwood, coal laden, was stranded.The...
Statistically Speaking
The Institution is re-analysing its records to investigate the causes of loss of life at sea. Some interesting facts are emerging.The RNLI exists for one simple reason - to save lives at sea. In the pursuit of that seemingly simple goal it...
Category: Articles
Maxstoke Castle
Maxstoke Castle, near Colehill, is open to the public on only two days of the year, each time in aid of a charity. The turn of the RNLI (above) was a huge success when on a beautiful afternoon last July £1,795 was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Danish Awards to Newhaven
THE Danish Government have awarded to Coxswain Richard Payne, of New- haven, Sussex, an inscribed Gold Watch, and to each member of the Newhaven Crew an inscribed Silver Cup, in recognition of their gallantry in rescuing the crew of the...
Category: Awards
Margara Della
MAN AND BABY TAKEN OFF YACHT Poole, Dorset. At 9.10 on the evening of the 29th September, 1962, the police informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was missing inside the harbour with a man and a baby on board. The yacht had grounded at...
Dorileen
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.— The motor life-boat Westmorland was launched at 10.25 P.M. on the 28th August, as information had been received from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore on Goswick Sands.
Rain was...
A Small Dinghy
AUGUST 6TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At 2.20 in the afternoon the coastguard reported a man adrift in a small dinghy. He had only one oar, and was rapidly being blown out to sea by a strong off-shore wind. At 2.30 the life-boat’s motor...
Miss Hunt
HOLYHEAD.—Signals of distress being seen in the bay, the No. 1 Life-boat Thomas Fielden was launched at 9.10 P.M.
on the 25th January, while a strong gale from N.E. was blowing with severe squalls, a heavy sea, and snow....