LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Security
AGROUND At 9.36 a.m. on 2ist May, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a cabin cruiser called Security was aground on Margate sands. The boat was kept under observation from the harbour by the coxswain and honorary secretary, who...
Feature: Rescue Statistics
Saving lives with data Peter Bradley, Staff Officer (Special Projects) in the RNLI Operations department, reveals how complex 'number crunching' underpins a successful lifesaving service Each issue of the Lifeboat includes detailed...
Category: Articles
Ready to launch
Volunteer crew members are now on stand-by 24/7 at new trial lifeboat stations at Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, and Union Hall, Co Cork. The RNLI has declared both stations as search and rescue assets, with Atlantic 75 inshore...
Category: Articles
A Vessal Called Seierskrandsen
In re- sponse to a message on the 3rd August stating that a vessel was ashore on the Loe Bar, the Life-boat John Francis White was launched at 8.15 P.M. The Life-boat proceeded to the bar and met the men belonging to the stranded vessel in...
A Norwegian Centenary
THE celebration of the centenary of the establishment of the first life-boat on the Norwegian coast took place at Stavanger on 22nd August, 1954. It was held at the time of the Annual General Meeting of the Norwegian Life-boat Society and...
Category: Articles
Hannah Denham
IN April, 1926, the Institution awarded its gold badge, given only for dis- tinguished honorary services, to Miss Hannah Denham. She had then been for many years a bed-ridden cripple in the incurable ward at the Westminster Hospital. She was...
Category: Obituaries
Northern Queen
Wick, Caithness-shire. At 2.30 p.m.
on 2nd January, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the trawler Northern Queen of Grimsby had engine failure about thirty eight miles eastnorth- east of Wick, and that her...
Belgian Fishing Boats
On the loth October several Belgian fishing-boats were bound for Lowestoft with Belgian refugees on board, when two of the boats grounded on the Newcome Sands.
As the sea was rough, the Coxswain, John Swan, of the Life-boat...
Bucklers Hard Boat Builders Ltd.,
Lady Hamilton would have approved! Bucklers Hard Boat Builders offer a comprehensive facility that includes a Rill repair & maintenance, custom build facility (power & sail), mobile crane up to 35 tons, summer & winter...
Category: Advertisement
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Aitb, Shetlands.—On the evening of the 6th of March, 1947, a doctor at Walls telephoned that he had a patient, a young woman, with acute appendi- citis. Owing to snowdrifts the only open road was from Scalloway to Ler- wick, but there was ho...