LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sunderland Boat and Lifting Gear Perspective Diagram
THERE are more ways than one of launching a Life-boat. Perhaps the most elementary way now in use is that of pushing her into the water over skids thrown down on the foreshore.
The quickest, and therefore the most...
Category: Drawings
Wexford Station
THE Coxswain has received the following letter from one of the men rescued from the wreck of the William and Michael:— SKULMARTIN LT. SHIP, BALLYWALTER, Go. DOWN.
19th July '17.
DEAR MR. WICKHAM &...
Category: Correspondence
Ring Dove
At about 1 A.M. on the 1st February, the Coast- guard called the Coxswain of the Life- boat Co-operator No. 2 and reported that a vessel was making signals of distress near the Bull Point. The Life-boat was at once launched, and proceeded...
The RNLI and me: Fern Britton
The TV presenter and author talks Cornwall, creativity and crabbing
What inspired someone who’s spent a lot of their life around London to write about a tiny Cornish fishing village? I’ve loved Cornwall, especially Looe,...
Category: Articles
London Life-Boat Day and Lifeboat Matinee
LAST year Life-boat Day in Greater London felt on the first day of the General Strike. Over £2,700 was collected, a large sum in such exceptionally difficult circumstances, but not half what it Lad been toped to raise. This year a...
Category: Articles
Brighton 175
RNLI lifeboats have been operating from Brighton for 175 years.
Jon Jones finds out how things have changed there over that time… It is true to say that over the years the RNLI, as it celebrates its 175th anniversary, has...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
TANKER FIRE VISIBLE FROM FIVE MILES AWAY Sixteen seamen taken off blazing oil tanker The collision which involved a tanker off the Humber estuary on 17 September 1989, and the subsequent fire, made front-page news throughout the country, and...
Category: Services
Rewards Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, from the 1st January to the 31st December, 1856
Dec. 18.—The schooner Ayenoria, of Bideford, and the schooner Alexandre, of Havre* were wrecked during a gale of wind near Tenby. Lieut. JESSE, R.N., chief officer of the Coastguard Station, and a crew of 11 men, put off in the Tenby...
Category: Articles
Oscar,the St. Nicholas Light-ship, a Steamer, a Trawler
The Christmas Gales.
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat's Four Launches in one Day.
THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy...
Lifeboats and Lifeguards In Action
Cave campers swamped Six cave campers at Tenby were taken by surprise in the early hours of 5 August, when the tide came in and washed their possessions away. They retreated further into the cave, but soon found themselves in deep water....
Category: Services