LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane
Troon, and Girvan, Ayrshire.—14th January, 1938. An aeroplane was missing, but it had come down on land near Largs. The owners made a donation to the Institution.—Rewards : Troon, £15 9s.; Girvan, £13 2s. 6d..
The Polar Star
MONTROSE.—At about 9.30 A.M. on 27th January a smack was seen turning towards the river, and when a little way from Scurdyness Lighthouse she missed stays and drifted on to the Annat Bank.
The No. 1 Life-boat Robert...
One of a Series of Six Paintings
One of a series of six paintings prepared in the RNLI display studio at Poole by Hilary Dear and David Simmons for the Indian Chief centenary exhibition at Ramsgate Harbour's Clock House. This painting, by David Simmons, taken from an...
Category: Drawings
Accounts of Services by Life-boats (6)
JULY
Launches 47. Lives rescued 31.
JULY 5TH - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 7.20 P .M. the coastguard reported two men were in danger on a-piledriver at Milford-on-Sea. A moderate squally S.S.W. gale was...
Category: Services
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
SOUTH BANK, LONDON, TUESDAY MAY 17 1982: 1,281 people rescued; nearly £16 million raised NOT MANY spring or early summer days have been sunny this year, but Tuesday May 17, when RNLI people from all parts of England, Ireland, Scotland...
Category: Meetings
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
ORMES' HEAD, LLAKDUDNO.—On the 27th February, information was received here that a vessel was in distress in the bay. The wind was blowing hard from the N.E. at the time, and the sea was very rough.
The Sisters'...
Category: Services
Why Does She Get Launched?
WHY does she get launched ? A ship, that is.
In other words, why, really, is a ship always a she, and why is she invariably launched with ceremony and usually the traditional bottle of champagne ? Here are the answers,...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (66)
AUGUST 7TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At 5.20 in the morning the lifeboat watchman saw a large bombing aeroplane come down on fire near the gate vessel.The sea was ablaze with burning petrol. The coxswain rang up the Royal...
North King
DOCTOR PUT ON BOARD TANKER IN SNOWSTORM Humber, Yorkshire. At five o'clock on the morning of the 16th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that there was a sick man on board a tanker two miles south of the...
An Aeroplane (41)
OCTOBER 28TH. - APPLEDORE, DEVONSHIRE.
A British aeroplane had crashedinto the sea, but her crew of two were rescued by an American amphibious craft. - Rewards, £9 12s..