LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services by Life-boats
Services by the Life-boats of the Institution, by Shore-boats and by Auxiliary Rescueboats during 1943 During the year life-boats were launched 411 times. Of these launches 249 were to vessels and aeroplanes in distress through attack by the...
Category: Services
None (48)
Nov. 1ST. - DOVER, KENT. At the request of the chief of staff., Naval Base, the motor life-boat Sir William Hillary was launched at 1.50 P.M., but the services rendered were not reported. The life-boat returned to her station at 7 P.M. -...
Listings
Daniel L Gibson A £2M Severn class lifeboat was officially named at Hull Marina on Thursday, 24 July 2003.
The cost of the lifeboat, which is now part of the relief fleet, was met by a substantial bequest from the...
Category: Articles
Eastbourne's D Class Inflatable
Eastbourne's D class inflatable comes ashore after another service later in the year. On the night that Ian Stringer won his Silver Medal it was pitch black, there was a 6ft sea, the lifeboat's port sponson was holed and she was full... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Naval Patrol Boat
OCTOBER 4TH. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.
A naval patrol boat had been reported overdue and the life-boat searched for her during the night. She found nothing, but the patrol boat returned next day. - Rewards, £18 9S....
A Rubber Dinghy
Cromer, Norfolk.—About 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the 7th of August, 1948, a bather could be seen in a rubbeJ dinghy three-quarters of a mile north- east of the pier. He appeared to be drifting seawards on the ebbing...
Mrs M Saunders
Mrs M. Saunders, president of Blyth ladies' guild since 1977. Mrs Saunders was a founder member of the guild in 1926 and served as honorary treasurer from 1934 to 1976; she was awarded the silver badge in 1961 and the gold badge in 1984....
Category: Obituaries
A Cargo Boat
JULY 20TH. - BALTIMORE, CO. CORK.
Information had been received that a cargo boat had been torpedoed, but though the life-boat searched for a long time in the neighbourhood of the Fastnet Rock she found nothing. - Rewards,...
A Fishing Boat (8)
NOVEMBER 15TH. - ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.
A fishing boat at anchor had gone ashore when the rope broke, but she did not need the help of the life-boat. - Rewards, £15 10s. 6d..
A Ship’s Sailing Boat
AUGUST 30TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
During the afternoon of the 29th of August, three men put out in a ship’s sailing boat from Herne Bay. Later in the day she was reported to be drifting but to have refused a tow from a motor...