LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Stranded on rocks
10 April: Ilfracombe, Devon A teenage girl stranded on rocks and cut off by a rising sea was rescued by Ilfracombe lifeboat. The 13-year-old became stuck near Lee Bay while walking with friends. Ilfracombe’s...
Category: Articles
Floralie
French trawler THE FRENCH TRAWLER Floralie, 30 miles off Trevose Head on a bearing of 287°, reported in the early hours of Friday October 17, 1980, that she had a serious leak and needed immediate assistance. HMS Pollington, 40 miles...
Lottery
LOtteRY Lottery lifesavings When it comes to saving lives at sea, £200,000 is a great deal of money to raise. Luckily, improvements to the Lifeboat Lottery will save the RNLI approximately this much in administration – every year....
Category: Articles
Moby Dick
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 5.23 on the evening of the 25th of June, 1951, the coastguard sent a message that a Brighton resident had reported a fishing boat broken down east of West Pier, Brighton. Another boat tried to tow her,...
Letter
• I was interested in the note 'What is a covenant?' on page 687 of THE LIFE- BOAT for September, 1969. It implies that unless the payer suffers tax at the full rate the covenant is not applicable, whereas as I understand the...
Category: Correspondence
A Speed Boat
Whitstable, Kent. At 11.30 a.m. on 2oth February, 1966, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small speedboat had broken down and appeared to be in difficulties. A helicopter from Manston had been alerted and hovered over the...
Pulled from the brink
28 April: Tower A drowning man was pulled from the River Thames and resuscitated by crew and the police after he was spotted floating face down in the water. Helmsman Kevin Maynard explains: ‘One of the police...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 97. Lives rescued 84.
February Meeting.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—On the even- ing of the 8th January the steamer City of Dublin, of Dublin, bound home from Hamburg with a general cargo, ran...
Category: Services
Book Reviews
• Published to coincide with the Institution's 150th Anniversary, The Life-boat Service by Oliver Warner (Cassell, London, £4.50) is the authoritative account of the RNLI. Mr Warner has had access to all of its papers, and has...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (59)
APRIL 18TH. - ILFRACOMBE, DEVON.
A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea between Combe Martin and Lynton, and one of the crew was believed to have baled out, but nothing was found, and it was learnt later that...