LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
1986 London International Boat Show
The London International Boat Show at Earls Court last January proved very successful for the RNLI and all the volunteers who helped to man the stand. The main exhibit, at first glance unusual for a boat show, was a tractor, or more...
Category: Articles
Sueine Meinde
SELSEY.—On the 27th February, at 7.30 P.M., flare-up lights were seen to the westward of Selsey Bill. The wind at the time was blowing a strong gale from the S.W. The Selsey Life-boat Four Sisters was launched, and proceeded to the vessel,...
Flamingo
BROADSTAIRS.—The brig Flamingo, of Farsund, laden with pit-props from Christiansand for Cardiff, having been observed running in the direction of the north end of the Goodwin Sands, the crew of the Broadstairs Life-boat were summoned. Soon...
Snowdrop
LOWESTOFT.—At 3 o'clock on the afternoon of the 17th of January, the second coxswain of the Life-boat observed that the trawler Snowdrop, of Ramsgate, had run aground on the north part of the Newcome Sand, during an E. by S. wind and a...
Landing Craft (G)110
DECEMBER 24TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. About 1.45 in the afternoon information was received through the signal station that landing craft (G)110 had been in collision and was sinking near the gate vessel. The weather was foggy, with a light...
Celestina
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—At daybreak on the 30th January the barque Celestina, of Fiume, which had been riding in the bay for some days, was seen dismasted but riding easily at her anchor. Subsequently signals were shown, and, in response to...
Life-Boat Stamp Club
As was announced in The Life-boat for last November, Miss Margaret Power, of Mount Royal, Old Common, Cobham, Surrey, honorary secretary of the Cobham branch, has formed a stamp club to sell postage stamps for the benefit of the Institution....
Category: Donations
Kingsabbey Ploughed Into Southend Pier
Lifeboathouse destroyed: a 645-tonnc coaster. Kingsabbey ploughed into Southend Pier on the evening of Monday June M . 1986. She came l« rest athwart the lifeboat slipway destroying piles supporting the front of the boalhouse. More... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Descendants of William Wouldhave In Australia
LAST year the Institution lent photographs of portraits of Sir William ! I Hillary and Henry Greathead, and of a j i bust of William Wouldhave, to illustrate ; an article called " The Red Cross of the I Sea : the Romance of the...
Category: Articles
T. Deryon
FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHEN BAY.—On the 21st August, in a strong wind from the S.W. and a rough sea, the yacht T. Deryon,of Carmarthen, was observed to be dismasted and in dangerous proximity to the Langharne Sands. Tie Life-boat City of...