LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rubber Dinghy (1)
JULY 4TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 2.15 P.M. the Ramsgate naval base asked the life-boat crew to stand by from 3 P.M.
This they did. An hour later they were asked to go out to a rubber dinghy reported to be off Birchington with...
A British Aeroplane (4)
OCTOBER 27TH. - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN. At 2.5 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that a British aeroplane had crashed in the sea. The weather was fine, the sea calm. At 2.20 the motor life-boat George and Sarah Strachan was launched...
None (71)
AUG. 10TH. - MARGATE, KENT. Just after midnight the officer in charge of troops on the jetty informed the coxswain that he could hear calls for help from the water.
The night was very dark. An air raid was in progress and...
M.F.V. Arctic Solatair, two Motor Boats and two Sailboards
Five calls WHEN, ON THE, AFTERNOON of Saturday September 17, 1983, the 35ft MFV Arctic Solatair picked up a floating rope around her propeller and went ashore at Skinningrove, about six miles south of Redcar, Tees Coastguard telelphoned the...
Wild Rocket
Aground in gully THE DUTY ASSISTANT HARBOUR MASTER at St Peter Port, who is a deputy launching authority (DLA) of the lifeboat station, was informed by the Signal Station at 0428 on Tuesday October 11, 1983, that the French yacht Wild Rocket...
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
More and more crews have been getting to grips with our most advanced all-weather lifeboat yet. So, as we celebrate 3 years since the first Shannon class launched, what’s the verdict?
12 MONTHS
to produce a new...
Category: Articles
Loss of Life from Shipwreck on Our Coasts
CIRCUMSTANCES seem to combine in an extraordinary way for spreading very erroneous impressions as to the actual loss of life from shipwreck on the coasts of the United Kingdom. We constantly see in the papers "]ast week's...
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Central Operations/Information Room Rnli Headquarters Poole
CALLERS TO THE CENTRAL OPERATIONS/ INFORMATION ROOM on the fourth floor of the RNLFs headquarters are frequent. During a typical morning, the chief of operations may wish to be given particulars of recent lifeboat passages, the trials...
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From An Original Idea by Henry Greathead
Jn Sunday, 15 March 1789 a ship, the Adventure of Newcastle, began the process which led to today's lifeboats.
Adventure was wrecked at the mouth of the Tyne while thousands of onlookers watched helplessly from the...
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Minstrel Boy
Four saved from yacht aground in heavy sea and swell A service by the Walton and Frinton lifeboat to a yacht aground with four people on board has earned the coxswain a letter of thanks from the Institution's chairman. The other members...