LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fiancee
During a strong easterly gale on the llth Decem- ber the French schooner La Fiancee, of Paimpol, came into Campbeltown Harbour for shelter. She let go her anchors, but owing to the strength of the gale the anchors dragged, and the vessel...
The S.S. Britannia
On the 25th September, during a thick fog, signals of distress were heard, and the Life-boat Forster Fawsett was dis- patched as quickly as possible. Near the Crumstone Rock, Fame Island, she found the s.s. Britannia,...
A Ketch and the Shrimper Marjorie
At about 10 A.M. on the 20th April, a ketch was seen to miss stays and run aground on Taylors Bank, and as the cone had just been hoisted denoting a gale might be expected, the Life-boat John andHenrietta was launched and proceeded to...
Brabloch
BULL BAY.—Signals of distress were shown by a vessel lying between the East Mouse and Amlwch port, on the evening of the 12th January. They were repeated in quick succession, and the Lifeboat Curling was promptly launched, four minutes only...
Lieut.-Commander Henrik De Booy
Lieut.-Commander Henrik de Booy, an honorary life governor of the Institution since October, 1933, died on yth September, 1964, at the age of 97. He was former secretary of the Royal North and South Holland Life-boat...
Category: Obituaries
Arthur and Reit Billitt
Arthur and Rcil Billitt, well known through the television gardening programme Clack's Farm, have for many vears donated to the RNLI the proceeds from their car-park at Clack's Farm for one Sunday in everv summer month. They also... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Medals for Hastings.
Coxswain John Muggridge, of Hastings, on his first service in command of the life-boat, won the bronze medal, for rescuing seven lives from one of H.M. trawlers.
She had gone ashore and the life-boat found her at daybreak...
Category: Articles
The Lost Man: the Damaged Boat.
The man who was lost was Benjamin Clark, the bowman and signalman.
He had served in the life-boat for 25 years, and his father and brother had each been coxswain. His widow has been pensioned by the Institution as if her...
Category: Articles
Heavy mettle
16 October 2011: RNLI lifeguards on Perranporth Beach, Cornwall, were called to help three surfers stranded in 1½m surf with a heavy backwash from nearby cliffs. Lifeguard Adam Taylor says: ‘We made our way...
Category: Articles
Star of Peace
RAMSGATE.—On the 29th March, during strong gale from the E.N.E., accompanied by a heavy sea, the barge Star of Peace, of London, was observed in a dangerous position riding at anchor in Pegwell Bay, all her sails having been blown away. The...