LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hilton
L O N D ON BOATSHOW Hilton III aSSDCHltintl With National Boat Shows In January 2003 the London Boat Show makes its final appearance at Earls Court, before gliding downriver lo the all-new ExCeL Exhibition Centre for 2004. So come along for...
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Sand Runner
LISTING VESSEL Selsey, and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 2.20 a.m. on 5th December, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary at Selsey that Niton radio station had received a distress call from the motor vessel Sand Runner, of Goole....
Success
Redcar, and Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—At about 9.45 A.M. on the 2nd January, 1939, the coastguard at Marske telephoned that a motor fishing vessel was in distress four miles north-east of Huntcliffe. She was the Success, of Whitby, with a crew...
Sir John Lister
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 7.38 P.M. on the 6th April the Donna Nook coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore north of Donna Nook beacon.
A gentle breeze was blowing, with a slight swell, but there was a very dense fog. The...
A Yacht and a Dinghy
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. — At 8.45 on the evening of the 8th of August, 1957, the honorary secretary learnt that a sailing boat had capsized off the mouth of the river Axe and was drifting out to sea. The life-boat Fiji and Charles was...
Tennant, of Stockton
On the 5th January, the brig Tennant, of Stockton, ran on shore, in a severe snow-storm, on the Newcome Sand.
She was quickly seen from the shore, and the Lowestoft life-boat was immediately manned and launched, under the...
Swedish Lifeboat Arrives for Trials
Swedish lifeboat arrives for trials The Swedish Victoria class lifeboat, which is to be trialled by the RNLI as part of the RNLI's Lifeboats 2000 boat development programme, arrived in Poole on 15 February.
She was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Perilous Play
RescUe PeRILoUs PLAY swept along by the powerfully ebbing tide, a 9-year-old girl’s survival depended on the reaction of her local lifeboat crew a powerful ebbing tide, a 9-year-old girl’s Jade Kerrison was playing with a friend at south...
Category: Articles
Oakley Tribute
Mr. R. A. Oakley, M.B.E., M.R.I.N.A., the life-boat designer, who last year retired from full-time service with the Institution, received a letter in November, 1966, from Coxswain W. Sheader, of the Scarborough lifeboat J. G. Graves of...
Category: Correspondence
A Norwegian Barque Alecto
At midnight on the 23rd April, 1859, the Norwegian barque Alecto ran ashore two miles north of Win- terton; her mainmast was soon hanging over her side, and the seas breaking over her.
The Winterton life-boat was quickly...