LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cherbourg to Hamble By John Spicer
YE OLDE WHYTE HARTE, Hamble, has for a number of years supported the RNLI, culminating in a total of £1,500 being raised in 1979. Each year new ideas have been thought of to raise money and last year during opening hours and amid much...
Category: Donations
Lifesaving evolution
While our lifesaving purpose has always stayed the same, our rescue map has constantly evolved since 1824 – so what are the latest developments around the coast?
We have 235 established...
Category: Articles
The S.S. South Coaster
DECEMBER 2lST. - EXMOUTH, DEVON.
At 8.15 in the morning of the 13th of December, the S.S. South Coaster, of Cardiff, ran aground on the eastern end of Pole Sands, west-by-south three-quarters of a mile from Orcombe Point....
Stores Supplied Free of Charge
THE Institution wishes to express its thanks to the following firms who, in the past year, have supplied certain stores for life-boats without charge: Biscuit manufacturers: Huntley and Palmers, Ltd., Read- ing.
W. and R....
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Pangbourne Branch Is Affiliated to Weymouth Lifeboat Station and a Framed Colour Photograph of the 54' Arun Tony Vandervell Presented By Weymouth Crew Was Unveile
Pangbourne branch is affiliated to Weymouth lifeboat station, and a framed colour photograph of the 54' Arun Tony Vandervell, presented by Weymouth crew, was unveiled at the Swan Inn, Pangbourne, on December 8 by Chantal d'Orthez,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Letters
Still going strong It may be of interest to some of your readers that the actual barometer featured on p. 312 of your Spring 1986 edition is still in good working order and situated in a glass panelled recess in a wall at the village of...
Category: Correspondence
Lifeboat Services
LOUGH SWILLY BACKS-UP RIGID INFLATABLE Lou (ill Swilly Ireland Division Photographers save fishermen in Gale A rescue carried out by the crew of a rigid inflatable in Gale force conditions on 16 April 1991 has earned its two-man crew awards...
Category: Services
The Spanish Barque Primera de Torrevieja
On the 7th August, the Spanish barque Pritnera de Torrevieja, bound from Liverpool to the Havannah, with a valuable cargo, ran ashore on the Blackwater Bank. Information having been conveyed to the Cahore life- boat station, 12 miles distant...
Lion, of Goole
BROADSTAIRS.—At 5 P.M., 12th March, the schooner Lion, of Goole, bound from Hull to the Isle of Wight, was observed driving before a heavy gale at north, with signals of distress flying. The signal guns of the station having failed to...
The Small Screw-Steamer Clan Alpine
BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—On the 2nd December the small screw-steamer Clan Alpine, of Leith, in entering the Kiver Tweed struck on the bar, turned broadside to the sea, and sank. The Life-boat Albert Victor was speedily launched and rescued the crew...