LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Listings
Naming ceremoniesAlec and Christina Dykes atTorbay More than 350 guests attended the ceremony for Devon's first Severn class lifeboat. The lifeboat was received on behalf of the RNLI by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston CBE RD and named by Torbay...
Category: Articles
Ceremonies
Sennen Cove Mersey class The Four Boys Eighteen years on from the visit of His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent to name the previous Sennen Cove lifeboat, history was repeated on Wednesday 22 April as the town, bedecked in flags and sunshine,...
Category: Inaugurations
People and Places
Harold Harvey Former lifeboat inspector Harold Harvey, the holder of an RNLI Gold Medal for Gallantry, died on 23 August at the age of 71.
He had served the RNLI from 1952 until 1973 and won his Gold Medal for his actions...
Category: Articles
Dragonfly
Four saved .as their boat is destroyedOn the evening of Saturday, 24 February, four sailors were completing their journey from Liverpool to Rhyl, They were approaching Rhyl when they started to " have trouble with their engine. They cut...
The Record of a Legacy. 1,072 Lives Rescued By the Twenty James Stevens Life-Boats
1,072 Lives Rescued by the Twenty James Stevens Life-boats.
IN 1894 the Institution received under the will of the late Mr. James Stevens, of Birmingham, a sum of £50,000, to be spent on the construction of twenty...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
The Fundraisers
Raisers Car booty! Hundreds of people made money from filling their car boots with unwanted items and selling them at the sale organised by Henley branch, but the real winner was the Institution which received a staggering...
Category: Articles
The Loss of Life on and Near Our Coasts
A CAREFUL or interested reader of the article in THE LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL for last November, on the " Wreck Register and Chart for the year ended June 30th, 1884," cannot but be struck by the me- lancholy fact shown by the statistics,...
Category: Articles
The Sailing Barque Kaskelot (1)
Three lifeboats stand by sailing barque in severe weather Three lifeboats were launched in winds of up to Force 11 when the Jersey registered sailing barque Kaskelot, with 17 people aboard, reported that her anchor would not hold and that...
Michel Swenden
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 12.36 on the afternoon of the 15th of January, 1954, the coastguard reported that a wireless message had been intercepted from a ship, stating that she was drifting on to rocks between South Stack and Skerries. At 1.2...