LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Margate, Kent. At 9.45 on the morning of the 27th of June, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary sec-retary that a motor yacht had broken down two miles north-east of Kingsgate and was sending distress signals by morse lamp. At 10.4 the...
Lifeboat Services
South East Division Sick man taken off in gale AN IRISH CONTAINER SHIP, Bell Rover, contacted Dover coastguard on the evening of Tuesday November 20,1984, seeking medical advice about one of her crew members who was sick. After consultation...
Category: Services
The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom
Lin. LYME REGIS. The William Wood- code, 33 feet by 8 feet, 10 oars.
SITUATED in a valley between two hills, on the extreme western seaboard of Dor- setshire, Lyme Regis has been a place of some importance, not only in...
Category: Articles
Launch of a New Life-Boat at Tynemouth
[Abridged from the Newcastle-on- Tyne Daily Papers.] THE new life-boat, recently presented by GEORGE JOHN FENWICK, Esq., to the port of Tynemouth, was launched there on Friday, the 13th November, with an unusual degree of ceremony. The boat...
Category: Inaugurations
Deborah B Bermuda Search and Rescue Institute's First Lifeboat Is a 15' Grp Hamilton Jet-Propelled Open Launch from New Zealand on Service Around Bermuda She Will
Deborah B, Bermuda Search and Rescue Institute's first lifeboat is a 15' GRP Hamilton jet-propelled open launch from New Zealand. On service around Bermuda she will be operating in waters beset with coral reefs and shallows: she... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Going Alongside and Survivor Recovery
WHEN A LIFEBOAT reaches a vessel in distress in gale or storm force winds she has come to the heart of her problem; how best the people on board may be brought safely to shore. Can she go alongside and take off the survivors. Or is there a...
Category: Articles
All lifeboats great and small
Who could help you find a lifeboat, build a scale model of one or even uncover the adventures of a former lifesaving craft?
There’s one branch of the RNLI whose members are brought together not...
Category: Articles
Some Ways of Raising Money
Fund-raising branches and guilds throughout the country had very good results last year. Dundee branch increased its total by nearly 50 per cent to reach £15,800. the ladies' guild contributing £8,000 towards this sum; the...
Category: Donations
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
For which Rewards were given at the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Seafield, Quilty, Co. Clare.—At 7.30 A.M. on the 2nd December, 1933, a curragh, which was returning from the fishing grounds,...
Category: Services
Union Crystal
Union Crystal sinks JUST BEFORE 1915 on Wednesday, November 16, 1977, the honorary secretaries of both Sennen Cove and St Ives lifeboat stations were informed by Lands End Coastguard that the 499-ton coaster Union Crystal was in trouble 12...