LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boatman Goes Overboard
SHORTLY before noon on the 17th of April, a fishing boat, with two men on board, half a mile off Selsey Bill, was seen from the shore to capsize. A moderate wind was blowing from the south-west, and there was a steep, choppy sea. Within ten...
Category: Services
Above and beyond
The RNLI’s new Chairman, Admiral The Lord Boyce, is well aware of the sea’s dangers, as he explains to Rory Stamp
Like many of the RNLI’s senior figures, Mike Boyce has inspected several lifeboats at close quarters....
Category: Articles
Holiday Draw
For the first time ever, the top prize of the RNLI's lottery draw was a two week Mediterranean holiday. The prize, donated by Sunworld Sailing, also included £1,000 spending money.
RNLI Director, Brian Miles drew... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishing Boats
About 6 A.M. on the 22nd January the wind suddenly veered to S.E., and increased to a gale, causing the sea to rise rapidly, so much so, that some of the fishing fleet which had gone off to the fishing grounds the previous evening were...
Cape Palliser
AUG. 22ND. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At 2.20 A.M. the watchman reported that a trawler had gone ashore on the Inner Binks. A light N.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a slight swell, and the weather was foggy. The motor life-boat City of Bradford...
Naiad
Swanage, Dorset. — At 2.36 on the afternoon of the 20th of September, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was apparently in distress and fly- ing a signal two and a half miles south- south-east of St. Aldhelm's...
Contents
Meet Monte, rescued by Henry Blogg Page 12 The Annual Presentation of Awards 1956 Page 15 Portsmouth crew venture into icy waters Page 26 News Including learning to be SAFE, a station closes, and a supporter competition Feature: Cromer's...
Category: Contents
A Canoe
Exhausted canoeist WHILE ON EXERCISE at 1615 on Friday, June 20, Port Talbot ILB crew saw people on the tip of the breakwater who were indicating that someone was in distress in the heavy surf on its seaward side. There was a fresh...
October (1)
WESTHAVEN, ANGUS. At three o’clock in the afternoon of the 19th of August, 1944, a sudden change in the strength and direction of the wind raised a rather heavy sea which was breaking with great force over the rocks.
The...
Category: Services
Snapper
Poole and Bournemouth, Dorset.—At about noon on the 22nd January, 1939, information was received through the coastguard that the motor launch Snapper, which was bound from Hamworthy to Southampton, was in diffi-culties off Boscombe Pier. A S...