LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Hopper Novia Magum
Dover, Kent.—At 5.12 on the morning of the 10th of June, 1954, the Sandgate coastguard rang up to say that the Dutch tug Loire had wirelessed that she had been towing the hopper Novia Magum, which had two men on board, but that the hopper...
The Tongue Lightvessel
Margate, Kent. At 4.9 on the afternoon of the 21st of November, 1958, a request was received from the Chief Superinten- dent, Trinity House, for the life-boat to land a sick lamplighter from the Tongue lightvessel. The life-boat North...
The L.C.T. 2263
DECEMBER 3RD. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. At seven in the morning a vessel - the L.C.T. 2263 - was seen to be in difficulties close to the South beach behind the pier. She was driving ashore in broken water and was making signals by red lights...
From the Director
Lt Cdr Brian Miles looks at the RNLI's plans for the future and at a busy and memorable 1993In any generation, improvements in the lifeboat service can always be achieved, and the recognition that tomorrow we should aim to be better than...
Category: Articles
The 100th Life-Boat
WHEN Messrs. J. Samuel White, the famous shipbuilders of Cowes, delivered the Aberdeen life-boat in June, 1951, they had completed their hundredth life-boat for the Institution.
Their life-boat work goes back over a hundred...
Category: Articles
THE GROSVENOR CIRCLE
Once more the Institution's drama group, The Grosvenor Circle, is to enter Westminster Drama Festival in November. Last year was the first time the group entered the festival, and it was a successful effort by all. This year's entry,...
Category: Articles
The Hovercraft Sure
Ramsgate, Kent - At 12.20 p.m. on 4th February, 1967, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that a radio telephone request for assistance had been received from the hovercraft Sure which had broken down half a mile south east of the...
The North Goodwin Lightvessel
LIGHTVESSEL CREWMAN BROUGHT ASHORE Ramsgate, Kent. At 4.22 a.m. on Monday the 1st of July, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the North Goodwin lightvessel was very ill. At 4.40 the life-boat...
The Burning Fishing Boat
0 The burning fishing boat sends thick clouds of black smoke into the clear sky.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pulled from the river
TOWER | 14 OCTOBER
A woman believed to be suffering from epilepsy was rescued from the River Thames by Tower lifeboat crew. Passengers aboard a nearby boat directed the crew members to the woman. She...
Category: Articles