LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Wasting of the English Coast. (From the Times, 5th October, 1886)
ENGLISHMEN do not, as a rule, realise the perishable and perishing nature of the land on which they live. Although more than fifty years have now elapsed since Sir Charles Lyell collected and emphasised the evidences which showed that the...
Category: Articles
The Motor Cruisers Kon Tiki and Thyl and Fraeya
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 4.49 on the morn- ing of the ]4th of August, 1954, the coastguard reported that a red flare had been seen from a vessel between Gull Stream Buoy and North Goodwin Buoy. At 5.2 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out....
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
SBLSEY, SUSSEX.—At 7.35 A.M. on the 19th March the Coastguard reported that a vessel was on the Mixen Reef, flying signals of distress. The crew of the Life-boat Lucy Newbon were at once assembled and the boat launched, but just after she...
Category: Services
The Fundraisers
Sail Safari -- it's a lifeboat knockout! Using the 'It's a Knockout' theme, which has recently re-emerged into the limelight, the RNLI staged Sail Safari, an 'around the world boat race' in Battersea Park on 25...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats In January, February and March. 52 Lives Rescued
JANUARY DURING January life-boats were launched on service 59 times and rescued 34 lives.
DOCTOR TAKEN TO LIGHTVESSEL Broughty Ferry, Angus. At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 1st January, 1962, the harbour master informed the...
Category: Services
Above - Crowds Gather to See the Displays
Above - crowds gather to see the displays and watch the airshow.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1871
THE Wreck Register for 1871 was issued by the Board of Trade on Oct. 14, and is, as usual, a very complete and ex-haustive document. It is supplemented, in the usual way, by most interesting charts, which have greatly helped us to analyze...
Category: Annual Reports
See Wee
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire - At 4.24 a.m. on 16th March, 1969, it was learnt that the motor boat See Wee, with three men on board, on passage from Llandlwyn Island was overdue. The life-boat Cunard, on temporary duty at the station, was...
The Coningbeg Lightvessel
Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—About 2.45 on the afternoon of the 18th of November, 1955, a message was received from the Coast Life-Saving Service that thej brother of two men in the Coningbeg lightvessel had died. A request was made for the...
Services of the Life-Boats In January, February and March. 15 Lives Rescued
JANUARY DURING January life-boats were launched on service 30 times but rescued no lives.
FIREMEN TAKEN TO BELGIAN TRAWLER Selsey, Sussex. At 8.20 on the morn- ing of 4th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary...
Category: Services