LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Santa Maria
Newhaven, Sussex. At 6.50 on the evening of the 12th of July, 1959, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a message from the police at Brighton that a small yacht was in difficulties close inshore off Rotting- dean. At seven...
A Sailing Dinghy
At 6.15 p.m. on 4th June, 1970, a member of the crew of the Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, IRB saw a sailing dinghy with one man on board in difficulties three quarters of a mile off shore. The IRB was launched at 6.20.
There...
Violet Sinclair
Barmouth, Merionethshire - At 8.55 a.m. on 22nd March, 1966, the police informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat, the Violet Sinclair, had been seen three miles south west of Barmouth firing red flares. At 9.10 the life-boat The...
A Rowing Boat
Moelfre, Anglesey.—On the 21st of July, 1951, two visitors who had hired a rowing boat got too far out.
Unable to get back they drifted out to sea. When they did not return and could not be seen the owner raised an alarm. A...
Wave Crest
Coxswain John Swan of the Lowestoft Life-boat Kentwell was called out by the beach- men at 4.30 P.M. on the 15th February and informed that a vessel was aground at the entrance to the harbour. The Life-boat was launched without loss of time,...
Barge disaster averted
Chiswick lifeboat crew were on exercise on 22 March when they were tasked to a barge drifting beam-on towards Hammersmith Bridge. The barge’s engine had stalled and would not restart, and she couldn’t deploy her anchor. The lifeboat took the...
Category: Articles
The Horne Bequest
WE publish the portrait of the late Mr. Thomas Home, of Solihull, Warwick. This " fine old English gentleman" took the greatest interest in the Life-boat cause, and, by his will, bequeathed one-third of the residue of his estate...
Category: Obituaries
The Scene at Calshot Spit on 28Th July 1972 When the Ernest William and Elizabeth Ellen Hinde Was Named By Lady Woods Wife of the Former Chairman of the RNLI
The scene at Calshot Spit on 28th July, 1972, when the Ernest William and Elizabeth Ellen Hinde was named by Lady Woods, wife of the former Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O. The life-boat, which has... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Starting Young!
The youngest-ever 'lifeboat namer' swung into action at Craster on 20 March when two-and-ahalf-year-old Adam Bagley dispensed some champagne to formally christen the station's new D class lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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FEBRUARY 23RD. - WHITEHILLS, BANFFSHIRE. A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but later it was learned that she had crashed on land.- Rewards, £24 5s. 6d.