LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
United States Life-Saving Service
WE have received within the last few weeks the Annual Report of the operations of the United States Life-Saving Service for the year ended the 30th June, 1889, issued from the Government Printing Office at Washington, the Service being a...
Category: Articles
Money In Memory
Following the untimely death of Phil Doolan of Fareham, his family asked that money be donated to the RNLI as he was a keen sailor and dinghy instructor.
Phil was a consultant in the defence industry and had a long... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Yacht (3)
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 4.56 on the afternoon of the 7th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of a message re- ceived from the police that a yacht had capsized three quarters of a mile off Lee-over-Sand at St....
Yacht Haidee
LLANDUDNO.—At about 2.40 P.M. on the 7th September, the Life-boat Sisters' Memorial was launched to the assistance of the cutter yacht Haidee, of Liverpool, which had shown a signal of distress while at anchor in the bay, during a strong...
A Yacht
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 8th of September, 1960, a message was received that a small yacht with two people on board had been seen drifting ashore on Traigh Sands eight miles from Mallaig....
Calf Sound
Seven-hour service to cargo vessel in storm conditions Giving help to the 400-ton cargo vessel Calf Sound kept Eyemouth's 44ft Waveney busy for some seven hours in winds of up to Force 10 on 25 March 1988. The vessel was anchored about...
None
The rescue of a swimmer and two earned the helmsman and crew of lifeguards who had gone to his aid has Sunderland's D class lifeboat and two shore helpers a letter of thanks from the RNLI's chief of operations.The incident began at...
Honor
During very thick weather on the 3rd October the steam drifter Honor, which was being employed as a mine-sweeper, ran on to the rocks and made signals for assistance. In response the Life-boat John Anthony was launched, and stood by the...
Andania
TAKEN TO HOSPITAL Penlee, Cornwall. At 11.30 a.m. on 2ist March, 1964, the port medical officer told the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Andania would arrive off Penzance at 5 p.m. bearing a sick man on board who needed hospital...
Lans
Cliff face helicopter lift LONOHOPE honorary secretary was informed by the Coastguard at 2352 on December 20, 1974, that the Belgian trawler Lans was ashore on the north side of Tor Ness and required immediate assistance. Longhope lifeboat,...