LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lascar
Troon, Ayrshire. At 3.30 on the morn- ing of the 4th of March, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that flares had been sighted six to seven miles north-east of Kildonan Point. At 4.10, when the life-boat Charlotte Eliza-...
The S.S. Pinna
At 6.50 A.M. on the 1st January a message was received at the Coast-guard Signal Station from the captain of the s.s. Pinna, of London, to the effect that he was in distress and required immediate assist- ance. The vessel was drifting before...
Mrs J Stancer Chairman of the Warwick Ladies' Lifeboat Guild Holding the New Silver Lifeboat Trophy Described on This Page By Courtesy of Heart of England Newspaper
Mrs J. Stancer, chairman of the Warwick ladies' lifeboat guild, holding the new silver lifeboat trophy described on this page. - View image in PDF
by courtesy of Heart of England Newspapers Ltd.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ornen
NORTH SUNDERLAND.— The Life-boat Thomas Bewick was called out on service on the afternoon of the 4th of April to the assistance of the barque Ornen, of Frederickstadt, which was water-logged,and had driven on the Greenhill Sands, striking a...
A Hundred Years Ago
Extract from The Life-boat dated the 1st of October, 1858 Meetings of the Committee Thursday, 1st July, 1858. Thomas Chapman Esq., V.P., F.R.S., in the Chair.
The Committee voted their thanks to the London, Brighton and...
Category: Articles
Maid of Kent
RYE.—The night patrol reported that signals of distress were being made by a vessel off the west end of Broom Hill on the 24th November. The crew of the Mary Stanford Life-boat were immediately assembled, and the Boat put off at 8...
An Eye for Detail In Lifeboat Design
IN THE AUTUMN issue we published two pictures illustrating lifeboat propeller tunnel construction.
Here to round off the story is a photograph of the same detail in a completed 48' 6" Solent slipway lifeboat. Note...
Category: Articles
N.N.III
Eastbourne, Sussex. At 5.5. on the afternoon of the llth of December, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two red rockets had been reported in Norman's Bay, and that a boat was burning red flares about four miles...
A Sailing Yacht
JUNE 10TH. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN.
At 10.20 at night a telephone call was received from the owner of a sailing yacht, that the yacht, with his son, his sister and a man on board, was being driven out to sea by a strong...
Friends of the RNLI
These corporate partners offer discounts to you and fundraising benefits for our charity
Amazon
The RNLI receives at least 5% of your order value only via RNLI.org/amazon.
Furness Building...
Category: Articles