LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Gangeren
The No. 2 Life-boat Leicester was launched during a moderate N.E. gale and heavy break- ing sea, on the llth January, to the assistance of the s.s. Gangeren, of Brevik, which stranded near the North Pier.
Owing to the heavy...
Mrs Olwyn Cory 28 Mother of Twins and Wife of Mr Andrew Cory Mechanic of the Flamborough Lifeboat Swung High Across Thornwick Bay Flamborough Head Durin
Mrs Olwyn Cory, 28, mother of twins and wife of Mr Andrew Cory, mechanic of the Flamborough lifeboat, swung high across Thornwick Bay. Flamborough Head, during lifesaving demonstrations by the lifeboat and coastguards. Coastguards were... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sailing Dinghy
Swanage, Dorset - At 4.38 p.m. on 26th October, 1968, it was learnt that a sailing dinghy with five people on board had capsized in the Peveril Ledge tide race. The life-boat R.L.P.
was launched at 4.47. The tide was ebbing...
Twelve Hours at Night on the Goodwins
ON the night of the 24th of November, 1951, a gale from the west-south-west was blowing across the Goodwin Sands. The seas were very heavy, and the night very dark, with both mist and rain squalls. At 6.48 the coast- guard rang up the Walmer...
Category: Services
Functional Clothing
Functional Airflow" Jacket and Overtrousers Royal National Life-Boat Institution in 1471 the RNLI adopted Functional for Offshore Stations The clothing has been well received by our crews who operate in severe conditions for prolonged...
Category: Advertisement
48 Hours of Gale
66 Launches, 7 lives rescued, 21 vessels savedSEPTEMBER WAS USHERED IN by a Week of very high winds rising to gale and storm force—a week when there were many calls on the lifeboat service all round our coasts. Reports of boats in trouble...
Category: Services
A Bronze-Medal Service at Penlee
AT 2.15 ih the morning of 27th January a message was received at the Penlee life-boat station from the coast- guard that a ship appeared to be on fire near Gear Rock in Mounts Bay.
Twenty minutes later the motor life- boat...
Category: Services
The Life-Boat
With threat'uing frown the sun sinks down, And leaves a lurid sky; The cloudy rack drives swift and black, The winds rise loud and high.
The mother hears the rising storm—• Her heart is sick and sad; Her thoughts go out...
Category: Poetry
The Coperative Bank
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Category: Advertisement
The Following Are Extracts from the General Rules of Management
THE FOLLOWING ARE EXTRACTS FROM THE GENERAL RULES OF MANAGEMENT :— " Each Life-boat to have a Coxswain Superintendent, with a fixed Annual Salary of £8.
" The Life-boat to be regularly taken afloat for...
Category: Accounts