LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Book Reviews
O There cannot be many works of fiction based on the lifeboat service and of these few are likely to ring true to the men who man the boats. Although the majority of people would say that they are well acquainted with the RNLI, its lifeboats...
Category: Articles
A Cabin Cruiser
Fire A CABIN CRUISER on fire with two men and a boy on board was reported to the honorary secretary of The Mumbles lifeboat station by Swansea Coastguard at 1614 on Sunday August 21, 1983.
Maroons were fired and at 1618 The...
A Yacht, Two Catamarans, a Dinghy, a Diving Boat and a Speed Boat
Exercise turns into busy day for City of Plymouth Plymouth - South West Division Plymouth's new Arun class City of Plymouth took part in no less than seven rescues on Sunday, 22 May 1988, when a sudden increase in wind strength to around...
A Novel Life-Saving Dress
THE number of valuable lives lost every year by drowning is a fact not sufficiently realised, or it would certainly receive greater attention than it at present ap- pears to do.
During every summer, distressing ac- counts...
Category: Articles
Annual Report. 1896
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town Hall, Charing Cross Road, on Saturday, the 21st day of March, 1896, Captain His Royal Highness The DUKE OF YORK, R.N., KG-., in the Chair...
Category: Annual Reports
Vellum for Seamanship of a High Order
AT 7.26 on the evening of the 1st of January, 1961, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary of the Weymouth life-boat station, Mr. K. H.
Mooring Aldridge, that a motor vessel was ashore on Portland...
Category: Awards
Idun, of Bergen
RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS.—At day- break, on the 28th March, during a strong north-easterly wind and in a heavy sea, a large barque was seen ashore on the Goodwin Sands with a signal of distress flying. The Life-boat Bradford and the harbour...
Strathleven
On the night of the 16th December, the barque Strathleven, of Glasgow, was wrecked, during a strong wind W. by N., half a mile North of Float Bay, about seven miles from Port Logan.
The vessel was under double reefed...
New Ways of Raising Money
A LORRY decorated by the chairman and secretary of the Luton branch, Lieut-Commander Bernard McDonald, R.N.V.R., and Commander W. R. S.
Smith, R.N.V.R., with equipment supplied by the Institution's depot won the first...
Category: Donations
A Yacht (1)
Lifeboatmen swim through surf to rescue sailor Port Talbot - South West Division Two crew members of the Port Talbot lifeboat station have received letters of thanks from the chief of operations after an unusual rescue which led to a life...