LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Books
• Commenting on Yacht Signalling by Bernard Hayman (Nautical Books, Macmillan, £8.95) Rear Admiral W. J.
Graham, director of the Institution, wrote: 'This most comprehensive book on signalling to and from yachts is...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom
Lin. LYME REGIS. The William Wood- code, 33 feet by 8 feet, 10 oars.
SITUATED in a valley between two hills, on the extreme western seaboard of Dor- setshire, Lyme Regis has been a place of some importance, not only in...
Category: Articles
(Left) the Local Lifeboat Entry for the Cavalcade Which Opened Alderney Week 1977 Mrs N J Allen Leads the Rnli Team In Alderney Which With An Island Population
(Left) The local lifeboat entry for the cavalcade which opened Alderney Week 1977. Mrs N. J. Allen leads the RNLI team in Alderney, which, with an island population of about 1,750, has contributed £4,340 to Guernsey branch funds over... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Panachrandos
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 2.56 A.M. on the 26th November, 1938, the coastguard reported that the Greek steamer Panachrandos. of Andros, which was in Portland Roads, was drifting towards the shore. A west gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. The...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
PALLING, NORFOLK.—About 1 A.M.
on the 9th March the schooner Vixen of Fowey was wrecked on the beach about two and a half miles to the north of Palling. She was laden with burnt ore and was bound from London to the Tyne....
Category: Services
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
XXXVIII.—WALMER.
Centurion, 36 feet long, 9 feet 4 inches beam, 12 oars.
TOWARDS the end of the year 1856 a Life-boat was placed on this station by the Institution, in aid of which the Royal Thames Yacht...
Category: Articles
SERVICES: Exhausting Cliff Service
THK Barmouth, Merionethshire, IRB on 21st June, 1971, was requested to help in evacuating a badly injured woman who had fallen down cliff's at Friog. In view of the prevailing weather conditions the life-boat was ordered to be launched...
Category: Services
(Below) Once a Week (Whenever the Weather Allows) Mrs Joan Bagley Honorary Secretary of Totnes Branch Sets Up Shop In the Private Forecourt of Kingsbridge Inn With T
(Below) Once a week (whenever the weather allows) Mrs Joan Bagley, honorary secretary of Totnes branch, sets up shop in the private forecourt of Kingsbridge Inn, with the kind permission of the owner Philip Potter, or at the town summer... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Argo
CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE.—The barque Argo, of Fredrikstad, was totally wrecked near Macharioch on the 27th February, but happily nine of her crew were saved. The crew of the Life-boat at Southend were assembled, but as it was very doubtful...
Cromdale
During a dense fog on the 23rd May the ship Cromdale, of Aberdeen, was wrecked at Beast Point. The vessel was a large one of 1,849 tons register, bound from Taltal to Plymouth with a cargo of nitrates. Information of the disaster reached...