LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Salcombe Lifeboat,
The Salcombe lifeboat, pictured here during an actual service, works closely with Ihe Island Cruising Club at Salcombe. setting up exercises which help both the crew and its members.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ten Ten, of Nieuwpoort
Ramsgate, Kent - At 12.5 a.m. on 16th August, 1968, the east pier watchman informed the coxswain that the yacht Ten Ten was aground on the harbour bar. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis slipped her moorings at 12.18 in a strong westerly...
Services of the Life-Boats Belonging to the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
BUDDON-NESS, DUNDEE.—On the 3rd of December, 1862, the schooner Osprey, of Fraserburgh, with a cargo of wheat from Rostock, struck on the Abertay Bank, the weather being foggy, with a strong gale blowing from the S.E. As soon as she was...
Category: Services
The Lifeboat Service In Two World Wars
THE Royal National Lifeboat Institution, which depends entirely on voluntary contributions, was founded in 1824 and has now saved over 98,500 lives in peace and war. Sir William Hillary, the founder, built the lifeboat service on sound...
Category: Articles
Gien Mie
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 16th of December, 1957, a local resident heard on his radio that the fishing vessel Gien Mie, of Fleet- wood, needed help. He told the honorary secretary, and at 1.40 the life-boat Ann...
News from the Branches. 1st July to 30th September
1st July to 30th September.
Greater London.
BALHAM.—Special Life-boat Display at the Pavilion Theatre in connexion with the showing of the film " Atlantic " and collections organized by the...
Category: Branches
Evelyn and Margaret and the Hilda
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—On the 3rd November, 1939, three local fishing cobles were at sea. The wind was light from the S.E., but the sea was very rough. At 12.20 P.M. the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched and found the coble Evelyn...
The New Deputy Chief Inspector of Life-Boats
COMMANDER S. W. F. BENNETTS, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N. (Retd.), was ap- pointed Deputy Chief Inspector of Life-boats on 1st of July. He was previously District Inspector (General), in which appointment he came to the Institution on 16th of...
Category: Articles
Shy Girl
Margate, Kent - At 5.40 p.m. on i4th May, 1967, a report was received of a red flare off Nayland rocks. The IRB was launched to investigate and report.
Two red flares fired by the IRB were seen shortly afterwards. The...