LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Our Lady
Hastings, Sussex. At 9.45 on the evening of the 25th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been observed five miles south-east-by-south of Fairlight. The life-boat M.T.C. was launched at 10.9 in a...
A Dinghy (9)
St. Ives, Cornwall - At 8.28 p.m. on i2th August, 1966, two men, who had left St. Ives for Carbis Bay at 4 o'clock in a rubber dinghy, were reported missing.
The life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was...
On March 30 Rear Admiral W J Graham
On March 30 Rear Admiral W. J. Graham (c), director of the Institution, accepted the gift of a radar simulator, to be used for crew training, from Alan Jones (I), of Rediffusion Ltd of Crawlev. The simulator was prepared for the RNLI by a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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D class lifeboats help nearly 600 people to safety from floodingThe sterling efforts of the crews of three North Wales lifeboats during the severe flooding which hit the area in late February 1990 have earned the stations special...
I name this lifeboat ...
Children have been given a once-in-a lifetime opportunity to name a lifeboat in a recent competition. As well as choosing the name of a new Shannon class, the winner and their family will be VIP guests at the naming...
Category: Articles
William Shepherd
MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.—The ketch William, Shepherd, of Beaumaris, in ballast from Belfast for Carnarvon, anchored in Moelfre Boads in a strong gale from E.
on the 8th June. At about 10 P.M. she parted one of her cables, and...
A bit of a drama
For the naval historian
The Complete Scrimgeour
– From Dartmouth to Jutland: 1913–16
by Alexander Scrimgeour
Review by Jason Hughes, Inshore Lifeboat Crew Member at RNLI Cowes Released to coincide...
Category: Articles
Henrietta
On the 14th November, dur- ing a heavy westerly gale, the schooner Henrietta,, of Truro, which was at anchor in a dangerous position off the Selsey Bocks, hoisted signals of distress, and the Life-boat Four Sisters was launched to render aid...
Cecilia
At 3.30 P.M.
information was received that a vessel was flying signals of distress, and the crew of the Life-boat Charles Whiiton were assembled and the boat proceeded to sea in a heavy W.N.W. gale. When two miles S. by E....
Floreat
ANOTHER FISHING BOAT IN DANGER Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At 3.3 in the afternoon of February 28th, 1947, a report was received that a fishing boat was lying about a quarter of a mile east of Castle Hill, in a dangerous position.<...