LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annual Meeting
THE ninety-third Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION was held at the Mansion House, London, by kind per- mission of the Lord Mayor, on Tuesday, 17th April, 1917, at 3.30 P.M. H.R.H. The Duke of Connaught, K.G....
Category: Meetings
The French Fishing Boat Notre Dame des Victoires (1)
Fenit, and Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 3rd of May,1956, the Dingle Civic Guard tele- phoned the Fenit life-boat station to sav that two men were stranded on a high ledge of a cliff under the old tower at Ballydavid...
Barometers for Life-Boat Stations
PUBLIC attention has frequently been called to the invaluable use of a barometer for indicating a coming storm. It not unfrequently happens that a notice of a gale is given by a barometer two or three days before it actually takes place.<...
Category: Articles
A Motor Boat
Salcombe, Devon.—At 6.14 on the evening of the 13th of October, 1953.
the Hope Cove coastguard rang up to say that a small boat was burning- flares half a mile west of Prawle. At 6.25 the life-boat Samuel and Marie...
Hawkinge
ANOTHER YACHT IN PERIL Appledore, Devon.—At 8.50 in the evening of the 23rd of April, 1947, the yacht Hawk, of Southampton, which was moored in the pool, made distress signals. A strong west-north-west gale was blowing, with a very rough sea...
Mahala
Appledore, Devon. — At 9.20 on the evening of the 19th of September, 1954, a doctor told the coxswain that a woman and her daughter were in diffi- culties in the local motor boat Mahala of Crow Rocks and were burning...
Roger Bushell
Torbay, Devon.—At noon on the 6th of October, 1955, a local trawler company reported that their trawler Roger Bushell, of Brixham, which had a crew of eight, had lost her propeller and was drifting ten miles east-north-east of Berry Head. At...
New beaches
RNLI lifeguards are heading north this Summer, and will be patrolling beaches in Lincolnshire for the first time. The beaches – in Skegness, Mablethorpe and Sutton on Sea – were covered by council-employed lifeguards. The local council will...
Category: Articles
Fishing community
This is the scene that greeted the crew of Exmouth’s relief Mersey class lifeboat Fisherman's Friend, responding to a shout on 26 November 2008. The fishing vessel Aleyna had overturned 26 miles south east of the Devon town and her crew...
Category: Articles
A Whitley Bombing Aeroplane (1)
DECEMBER 9TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL, CLOVELLY, AND APPLEDORE, DEVON. On the afternoon of the 9th December Padstow No. 1 motor life-boat put out to the help of a Whitley bombing aeroplane which had been reported down in the...