LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tuano
DINGHY'S CREW SAVED At 9.40 p.m. on 3ist July, 1964, the coxswain noticed that a sailing dinghy was being driven on to the lee shore of Ireland's Eye by a near gale force westsouth- westerly wind. It was low...
Honeybird
Holyhead, Anglesey. At 1.50 on the afternoon of the 28th of August, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a man was clinging to an overturned sailing dinghy one mile off shore between South Stack and Rhosco- lyn Point. At...
Nature of Services By Inshore Rescue Boats
CLASS Fishing boats - all types Motor vessels, motor boats, etc.
Sailing yachts, sailing dinghies, sailing boats3 motor cruisers and motor yachts Aircraft Small boats, canoes, rubber dinghies, etc.
Landing...
Category: Services
Sophia Holten
RYE, SUSSEX.—On the 10th February, at about 2.30 A.M., signals of distress were shown by a vessel off Jury's Gap.
The wind was blowing strongly from the S.W., and the sea was heavy at the time.
The Rye...
Modern Motor Life-Boats. Modern Motor Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
Modern Motor Life-boats of the Royal National Life-boat Institution.
By ]. R. Barnett, O.B.E., M.Inst.N.A. (Blackie & Sons, Ltd. 5s. net.) THE author of this book is the head of the famous Clyde firm of yacht...
Category: Articles
The Help of Coxswains and Crews
THE Institution is fortunate in often having the help of its Coxswains and Crews, not only in manning the Life- boats, but in raising funds, sometimes by their personal efforts and sometimes in the form of gifts out of salvage money which...
Category: Donations
From Foreign Societies
Japan.
THE Imperial Japanese Life-saving Institution issued in March of this year a pamphlet, written in English, giving a brief history of the Japanese Life-boat Service since the chief priest of the Kotohira Shrine in the...
Category: Articles
Bookshelf
The Shoreham Harbour Lifeboats by A. K. Oliver and J. C. Harrison The Shoreham Harbour Lifeboats was first compiled by Anthony Oliver, now the RNLI's deputy head of fundraising and marketing, nearly 30 years ago but the station's...
Category: Articles
Wreck of the Meridian
THE following stirring account of the wreck of the above-named vessel is abridged from an interesting narrative of the same, which appeared in the ' Morning Chronicle' of the 2nd December last, as recounted by one of the sufferers, a...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats In April, May and June, 1954. 91 Lives Rescued
APRIL DURING April life-boats were launched 26 times and rescued 22 lives.
THREE MEN RESCUED FROM SAILING BOAT Margate, Kent.—At 2.50 on the after- noon of the 1st of April, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that he had...
Category: Services