LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Ex-Naval Motor Launch
LAUNCH BROKEN DOWN IN A HEAVY SEA Lowestoft, Suffolk. — At 4.0 in the afternoon of January 15th, 1947, the coastguard reported that a vessel, believed to be an ex-naval motor launch, was drifting five miles south of the coastguard...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
CULLERCOATS.—On the 11th January, 1893, twenty-five cobles went out fishing, but as a strong N.E. gale sprung up accompanied by a rough sea they were compelled to return to port. Seventeen of them arrived safely in the harbour, but by the...
Category: Services
The Racing Dinghy Meringue
Sheringham, Norfolk.—At 3.5 on the afternoon of the 27th of August, 1951, the life-boat Foresters Centenary was launched to stand by racing ding- hies in a regatta. A few minutes later one of them the Meringue capsized half a mile away. The...
List of the Rewards for Saving Life from Wrecks, Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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Category: Articles
The Great Storm In November, 1893
AT irregular periods, mercifully with a lapse of several years between them, storms of wide extent and hurricane force visit our coasts. The violence of these great gales and the enormous area affected by them is out of all proportion to the...
Category: Articles
The Motor Life-Boats of the Institution. No. 1.—The 60-Feet Barnett Type
THE 60-feet Barnett type of Motor Life- boat is the largest, fastest and most powerful in the Institution's Fleet, with the exception of the one Motor Life- boat designed and built for the special circumstances of service in the Straits...
Category: Articles
The Work Boat Gille Brighde
Crew rescue man trapped in capsized fishing vessel James McPhee, the coxswain of Campbeltown lifeboat, has been awarded the Thanks of the RNLI inscribed on Vellum following a service to the work boat Gille Brighde, when she capsized on 29...
An Ex-Airborne Life-Boat
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About 6.0 in the evening, on the 22nd of July, 1951, the coxswain saw a small yacht making heavy weather on a northerly course and asked the Wal- ton-on-the-Naze coastguard to keep a watch on her. At 6.23 the coast...
The Best Essay
By DENIS BUTLER (aged 14J), of Stamshaw Boys' School, Stamshaw, Portsmouth.
Why I admire the Life-boatman.
WHEN we consider the higher qualities with which men are endowed, we find that we admire...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Stassa, of Panama (1)
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides, and Life-boat 70-002 - At 5.20 a.m. on 15th July, 1966, a vessel was reported ashore at Renish point off Rodel. The life-boat The James and Margaret Boyd left her moorings at 5.50 in a moderate variable wind and a...