LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Oceanic
Hartlepool, Durham, and Redcar, Yorkshire. — While bound from the River Tees to Blyth the motor vessel Oceanic, of Newport, Isle of Wight, damaged her steering gear and began to drift. At 1.45 in the morning of the 7th of July, when...
Vanessa
Sheringham, Norfolk.—-At six o'clock on the evening of the 29th of July, 1957, a message was received that a yacht was in need of help a quarter of a mile south-east of Sheringham.
At 6.22 the life-boat Foresters Cen-...
Some More Gifts
From Warsaw THREE hundred and fifty-four zloty, ten groszy (£12 18s. 5d.), partly contri- buted to a life-boat collecting box at the British Passport Office, and partly the proceeds of a bridge tournament organized by two English ladies...
Category: Donations
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 2 February 1994 show that during 1993: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 5,397 times (an average of 14 launches a day) 1,274 lives were saved (an average of nearly 3 a day) Nearly 4% of all...
Category: Articles
Down to Business! the Ceremony Over, Margate's Crew Launch the Station's D Class Lifeboat to Tow Dinghy to Safety.
Down to business! The ceremony over, Margate's crew launch the station's D class lifeboat to tow a dinghy to safety.
...As the last cake crumbs were being brushed away and the bunting untied after the Margate... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Service In 1950
THERE were 603 launches of life-boats to the rescue in 1950, only 36 below the record number in 1949—and life-boats rescued 381 lives. Ninety-one lives were rescued by shore-boats, for which the rescuers were rewarded by the Institution,...
Category: Articles
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Two swimmers ALREADY OUT ON EXERCISE, On the evening of Tuesday, August 30, Port Talbot D class ILB remained afloat to cover an organised open water swim.
The wind was south west force 4, the sea rough and the tide flooding...
Annie
During the after- noon of the 10th February anxiety was felt for the safety of the motor fishing boat Annie, of Montrose, which had put out for the fishing grounds in the morning and had not returned. A moderate N.E. breeze was blowing, with...
Boy Bill
Margate, Kent.—At 12.55 in the after- noon of the 6th of June, 1948, the coast- guard reported that a rowing boat, the Boy Bill, of Westgate, with one man on board, was drifting seawards one and a half miles to the north-west, and the motor...
Diligent
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 8.30 on the evening of the 10th of November, 1955, the life-boat coxswain reported that he had heard a wireless message from the fishing boat Diligent, of Buckie, that she had gone ashore near Duncansby Head. At...