LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
At Yeovilton Air Day
At Yeovilton Air Day last August, John King (r) chairman of Yeovil branch, put on display the working scale model which he had made himself of Poole's 44ft Waveney lifeboat Augustine Courtauld. The model, used for fund raising, had that... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
GOBLESTON. — On the 1st January, 1895, the steamers Sent, of London, and Kirkstall, of Shields, which had been detained in the roadstead by stress of weather, ran short of provisions and each sent a boat ashore to obtain supplies. A moderate...
Category: Services
Jilly Cooper Met Hastings Own Lifeboat Fairlight and Some of Her People: (I to R) Christine Martin Peter Thorpe Mary Shoesmith Bob Shoesmith Colin Green Joe Marti
Jilly Cooper met Hastings own lifeboat, Fairlight, and some of her people: (I. to r.) Christine Martin, Peter Thorpe, Mary Shoesmith, Bob Shoesmith, Colin Green, Joe Martin (coxswain), Doug White (second coxswain), H. 'Sassy' Benton,... - View image in PDF
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Fokke de Jong Sr.
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 11.40 p.m. on 28th November, 1965, the life-boat E.M.M. Gordon Cubbin proceeded in a light northerly breeze and in a slight swell. A ship had been reported aground on the east side of Call. It was one hour after...
Abstract of the Wreck Register for 1876-77
TYRELLA, Co. DOWN.—On the 13th April, at about 7 A.M., the brigantine Cygnet, bound from Silloth to Dundalk, with a cargo of coal, was driven ashore in Dandrum Bay during a strong S.E. gate.
The Memorial Life-boat put off...
Category: Articles
History In the Re-Making: In January 1899 Lynmouth Lifeboat Was Hauled Up Countisbury Hill Ten Miles Over Exmoor and Down the Notorious Porlock Hill Through a Severe Gale So That She Could La
History in the re-making: in January 1899 Lynmouth lifeboat was hauled up Countisbury Hill, ten miles over Exmoor and down the notorious Porlock Hill through a severe gale so that she could launch from the comparative shelter of Porlock Weir... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Waiting for the Lifeboat
As cruising yachtsmen most of us will go through life without needing a lifeboat.
Growing experience, natural caution and a healthy respect for the sea backed up with good safety equipment should see us through. But the...
Category: Articles
The Coast-Guard Service: Its Origin and Life-Saving Work
A GOVERNMENT Service for the pre- vention of smuggling, from which the present Coast-guard Service has evolved, was already in existence in this country in the early part of the eighteenth century. In those days a consider- able force was...
Category: Articles
Thrush
At 6.10 P.M.
on the 18th September, one of the Life-boat Crew reported to the Cox- swain that a small yacht, the Thrush, of Hull, had stranded on the end -of Spurn Point. A light N.W. breeze was blowing, with a slight...