LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Village of Carbost
The village of Carbost, on the shore of a sheltered sea loch on the west coast of the Isle of Skye, together with the villages of Portnalong and Fiskavaig, forms a small community mostly of crofters and farmers. One perfect summer day last... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The London Barge Alan
Selsey, Sussex.—At 9.20 on the night of the 25th of March, 1954. the coast- guard telephoned that a red flare had been reported off Selsey. At 9.55 another red flare was seen, and at 10.15 the life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched in a...
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management.
November Meeting.
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 9 A.M. on the 9th October the sea was making fast, and one...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
PADSTOW.—-On the 13th Jan. 1894, the Life-boat Arab rendered assistance to the ketch St. Petroc, of Padstow. The master of the vessel was in need of the services of more men or of a tug, but only a small tug was available and it was...
Category: Services
Feeding the Gulls
WHEN the motor mechanic of the Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, life-boat started up the engines one morning in December, to test them, several dozen small grey mullet were blown out of the tunnels in which the propellers are housed. The stunned...
Category: Articles
Portrait on the Cover
THE cover picture on this quarter's journal is of Coxswain Richard Muir of Seaham. He was appointed on the 21st November, 1962, four days after the life-boat disaster in which the previous coxswain, J. T. Miller, lost his life while on...
Category: Articles
The Owers Lightvessel.
At 11.30 a.m. on 2/th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was an injured man on board the Owers lightvessel. The lifeboat Canadian Pacific was launched at 11.44 m a smooth sea. The tide was flooding. The...
The Last of the Life-Boat Horses
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 131 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 37 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 30th, 1936 - 64,872 The Last of the Life-boat Horses.
WHEN the...
Category: Articles
From the Director
Lt Cdr Brian Miles, Director of the RNLI, looks back on 1989 - and forward to a new decade J.t is difficult to believe that a whole year has passed since my last message in the journal. The old adage of time passing ever more quickly as the...
Category: Articles
The Steamship Boeton
At 12.45 A.M.
on the 16th January, during an ex- ceedingly thick fog, signals of distress were heard, and a message was received stating that a vessel was ashore to the north of the town. The Honorary Secretary of the...