LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Commentary
In place of the usual Notes of the Quarter there appears in this number an appeal by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I.
In other parts of this number there appear as usual accounts of services by the crews of life-boats and IRBs....
Category: Articles
A Speed Boat
RSPCA award ON WEDNESDAY AugUSt 12, 1981, Hlinstanton's D class inflatable lifeboat was called to a speedboat which, unoccupied except for a dog, was spinning round and round out of control off South Beach. The man who had been driving...
Tenby May 17 1986:
Tenby, May 17, 1986: meteorological records showed Tenby to be the wettest place in the country on the day the station's new D class inflatable lifeboat was handed over and dedicated. This did nothing to dampen the spirits of sisters... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
And They'Re Off!
And they're off! These happy toddlers look part in a race at a fun day organised at Endcliffe Park in aid of the City of Sheffield lifeboat appeal. Crowds of more than 5,000 turned up to see, among other things, a junior fancy dress... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
False Alarms
Two more false alarms have to be added to those which were mentioned in an article in The Lifeboat in November 1926. On the evening of 1st August, an aeroplane passed over Selsey, and a parachute was seen to drop from it and fall into the...
Category: Articles
Mary (1)
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—On the afternoon of the 3rd of June, 1957, the coxswain saw a small fishing boat drifting out to sea about three miles east of Rosslare harbour. At 3.5 the life-boat Douglas Hyde put out in a choppy sea. There...
A Cabin Sloop
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 7.50 on the morning of the 18th of September, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a small vessel was dismasted two miles south- west of the Royal Sovereign lightvessel.
Ten minutes later the...
Daffrobani
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.— At 11.56 on the morning of Sunday, the 1st of October, 1950, the life-boatWilliam Gammon, Manchester and Dis- trict XXX was at sea for adjustments to her wireless equipment when the coastguard announced that a...
Phoenix
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 3rd of July, 1954, the Dalkey Civic Guard reported that a motor boat was in difficulties about four miles south-east of Mugglin Island. At 5.30 the life-boat Dun- leary II put out....
Althea
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 8.35 on the evening of the 20th of July, 1954, the Needles coastguard telephoned that a vessel needed help off South West Shingles Buoy. At 8.44 the life-boat The Lord Southborough, Civil Service No. 1, on...