LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.M. Minesweeper Wedgeport
OCTOBER 21ST. - CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. At 6.50 A.M. the Tara coastguard reported a vessel on the rocks at the old lighthouse on South Rock, and the motor life-boat Herbert John was launched at 7.30 A.M. A moderate westerly breeze was blowing,...
Letters
Beach bother In August, when my granddaughter Victoria was on holiday in Dorset, she went with her mum and brother to a beach at Sandbanks, where she recognised some of the members of the lifeguard team from the photo in theLifeboat article...
Category: Correspondence
Fourteenth International Lifeboat Conference Gothenburg By Ray Kipling Public Relations Officer Rnli
HUMANITY . . . courage . . . dedication.
These words must have equivalents in every language and they were used repeatedly by delegates from all over the world at the fourteenth International Lifeboat Conference (ILC) in...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Days In 1931
IN 1931 no fewer than 686 Branches held Life-boat Days, as compared with 672 in 1930 and 616 in 1929. The actual number of Days was still larger, for many Branches cover a wide area and include several districts, each of which holds its own...
Category: Articles
Nanna
Lifeboat on passage saves eight Lytham St Annes and Hoy lake West Division The Tyne class lifeboat Voluntary Worker, on evaluation trials at Lytham St Annes, was three-and-a-half hours into a passage from her home station to Holyhead for...
Darlwin (1)
Falmouth, Coverack, Fowey, Cornwall and Salcombe Devon - At 5.37 a.m. on ist August, 1966, the Coastguard requested the Falmouth coxswain to launch the life-boat to search for the motor cruiser Darlwin which had been reported overdue. The...
A Hundred Years Ago
Extract from The Life-boat dated the 1st of October, 1858 Meetings of the Committee Thursday, 1st July, 1858. Thomas Chapman Esq., V.P., F.R.S., in the Chair.
The Committee voted their thanks to the London, Brighton and...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy (3)
Torbay, Devon. At 1.48 on the afternoon of the 18th of May, 1959, the police at Torquay told the honorary secretary that a dinghy was in difficulties off Maidencombe beach. Her occu- pants were waving for help, and at 1.55 the life-boat...
A Rowing Boat (1)
BOAT FOUND AFTER DRIFTING ALL NIGHT Ilfracombe, Devon. At 7.55 on the morning of the 2nd September, 1962, the police told the honorary secretary that the proprietor of the Lee Bay Hotel had reported that three of his staff and a visitor had...
Margaret Herd
CREW RESCUED At 4.25 a.m. on 9th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Margaret Herd was ashore near Fraserburgh.
Later the coastguard reported that red flares had been...