LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rambler
ALDBOROUGH, SUFFOLK.—On the 24th October the schooner Rambler, of Folkestone, was seen to be running for the shore at Aldborough with a flag of distress in her rigging, during a heavy gale of wind from S.S.W., and a very rough sea. She...
Scamper
At 9.51 a.m. on I2th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Scamper, which was moored in breakers off Camaes bay, had asked for assistance. The life-boat Lady Jane and Martha Ryland, which was on...
John
APPLEDORE, DEVON. — The Life-boat Robert and Catherine was launched at 7.45 P.M. on the 2nd March, and rescued the crew of three men from the ketch John, of and for Bideford, from Lydney with coal, which was totally wrecked near the bar buoy...
Speedy
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 17th of May, 1953, a report came by telephone of a yacht flying a distress signal a quarter of a mile east-bv-north of the Wyre Light.
At 11.50 the life-boat Ann Letitia...
Lifeboat Transporting Carriage. (With Tipping's Wheelplates.)
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger sizes, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger sizes, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
Category: Articles
Jellicoe Rose
Plymouth, Devon.—At 1.18 A.M. on the 26th November, 1938, a message was received from the King's Harbour Master that it had been reported to him that a vessel was sounding her siren and was apparently in distress inshore. A whole S.W....
Conference In South Wales
AT this conference delegates from fourteen branches and Ladies' Life- boat Guilds in Cardigan, Carmarthen, Glamorgan, Hereford, Monmouth, Pembroke and Radnor met at Cardiff on 29th May. Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the...
Category: Committee
Newsletter Launched
The Norwood and district branch of the R.N.L.I, launched in August the first issue of their newsletter Lifelines.
The newsletter contains the first of a series of articles on gold medal rescues, the inaugural one being an...
Category: Branches
A Dinghy
Dover, Kent. At 10.30 p.m. on i6th January, 1965, the police informed the honorary secretary that two men had set out for the Mole in a small dinghy leaving a third man on the beach who was to be picked up after one of the men had been...