LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy
Rescued four SHORTLY BEFORE 1645 on March 27, 1987, a dinghy with five people on board capsized in the roads to the north west of Falmouth lifeboat station.
Mr John Pentecost, working nearby in his Quay Punt workboat...
Minuet
Skipper taken ill THE YACHT Minuet, crossing the Channel from France with a crew of four on board on Thursday August 23, 1979, was making heavy weather and sent out a distress call; she was about eight miles east by north of Dover. HM...
Listings
On station ON-1127(47-019) Babs and Agnes Robertson, The Mumbles, 15 July 2006. ON-1096(47-005)ft/)eMw»e Measures withdrawn ON-1281(16-02) Haydn M/7/er, Tenby, 28 April 2006.
ON-1112(47-010) RFA Sir Galahad withdrawn...
Category: Articles
The St. Govans Light-vessel (1)
FEBRUARY 8TH and 9TH. - TENBY, AND ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE. Just before noon the Trinity House at Swansea telephoned to the life-boat station at Tenby, asking if the life-boat could be sent to the St.
Govans Light-vessel as...
The S.S. Magdapur
SEPT. 10TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
While bound for Newcastle the S.S. Magdapur, of Liverpool, a vessel of 8,640 tons, carrying a crew of eighty, was sunk by a U-boat off Aldeburgh. Information reached the lifeboat station...
Lifeboats In Action
Rescue against the clock Drifting closer to a rocky shore minute by minute, the yacht Headstrong needed help to survive the night. But would the Plymouth lifeboat reach them in time?Hampered by fishing gear around her propeller, Headstrong...
Category: Services
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Category: Advertisement
A phenomenal day
On a day when the highest wave ever recorded off the western shores of Ireland tipped 20.4m, Fenit lifeboat crew were called into action
On 13 December 2011, with a violent storm force 11...
Category: Articles
Awards to Honorary Workers
Mr. Loris N. PARKEK has been elected an Honorary Life Governor of the Institution in recognition of his generous and valuable services to the Life-boat Cause in writing for the Institution the Life-boat play " Their Business in Great...
Category: Awards
Legacies Paid to the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
LEGACIES PAID TO THE ROYAL NATIONAL' LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION DURING THE TEN YEARS ENDED 31st DECEMBER, 1892.
[Legacieg under £250 are omitted after having oeeu published twice in tfce Annual Eeporfa.} Amount...
Category: Donations