LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rising to the challenge
January’s storms called our volunteers into action in hazardous conditions that pushed our people and craft to their limits
The New Year had hardly begun when Penlee and The Lizard lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 10th February, 1938.
Sir GODFREY BAKING, Bt., in the chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— £ s. d.
Anonymous .... 500 0 0...
Category: Committee
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
Coxswain's Certificate of Service.
The COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE, and a PENSION, have been awarded to : FREDERICK J. WEBB, 27J years coxswain of the Weston-super-Mare...
Category: Awards
Japonica and a 60ft Sailing Vessel
Tyne's 26-hour service in storm force winds Coxswain Kieran Cotter of Baltimore's relief Tyne class lifeboat has received the RNLI's Bronze Medal for Gallantry following a 26-hour service to two separate casualties in winds up to...
Four Flying 15 Dinghies and One National 18 Dinghy
Dinghies capsize A NEAR GALE, south-south-westerly force 7, was blowing on the afternoon of Saturday July 26, 1986, when Mrs Helen Nicholson noticed that a number of sailing boats were in difficulty off Hook Lighthouse and Waterford...
CAPSIZE of DUTCH LIFEBOAT
WITH GREAT REGRET we have to report that the Royal North and South Holland Lifeboat Institution lifeboat Christiaen Huygens of Den Helder capsized on March 26, 1975. Two of her crew of three lost their lives.
At about 2145...
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Lifeboat Services
The boat was very quickly and efficiently recovered by a horde of enthusiastic helpers, in pouring rain and gale force winds, under the expert coordination of the head launcher, Ronald White.
For...
Category: Services
Donaghadee Lifeboat the 44Ft Waveney Arthur and Blanche Harris Set Out at 0929 on Monday January 21 to Go to the Help of the Danish Liquified Gas Carrier Regitze Tholstrup Aground North of L
Donaghadee lifeboat, the 44ft Waveney Arthur and Blanche Harris, set out at 0929 on Monday January 21 to go to the help of the Danish liquified gas carrier Regitze Tholstrup aground north of Larne Harbour in an easterly gale and very rough... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1858
Is accordance with our custom for some years past, we present some facts connected with the Wreck Register and Chart, prepared annually by the Board of Trade for presentation to Parliament.
It is, as usual, a...
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The Life-Boat
The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat is...
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