LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
First Rescue Ever from a Hovercraft
ON the 17th September, 1962, a service of a unique kind was carried out when for the first time a rescue was effected by life-boat from a hovercraft. The hovercraft was the first to be used on public service in this country and operated...
Category: Services
A Rubber Dinghy
Penlee, Cornwall.—At ten o'clock on the morning of the 10th of March, 1957, the St. Just coastguard telephoned that a rubber dinghy had been seen south-west of Penzer Point. The life- boat IF. and S. was launched thirty minutes later in...
Ark
CLOVELLY.—During a moderate gale from the N., squally weather, and a heavy sea, on the 7th December, the ketch Ark, of Bridgwater, bound from Lydney for Bnde with a cargo of coal, showed a signal of distress while at anchor in the roadstead....
Seventeen Hours In Gale. Five Were Rescued from Yacht
A SERVICE carried out in a northeasterly gale and lasting 17 hours has led to the unusual award of the collective thanks of the Institution on vellum to the coxswain and crew of the Arranmore life-boat. The service was to the yacht Espanola...
Category: Services
Wren
DINGHY NOT IN DIFFICULTY Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 2.39 p.m.
on Sunday the 29th September, 1963, the honorary secretary's wife received a telephone message from the Orlock coastguard that they had been told by the Bangor...
A Penny a Week from 130 Firms
Two years ago the Lerwick Branch wrote to over 130 firms in the Shet- iands asking if their staffs and work- people would give a penny a week to the Life-boat Service. All but one firm agreed. The contributions for the first year amounted...
Category: Donations
Girl Pat
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk - At 7.15 p.m. on 25th Sep-tember, 1966, three men in a boat off Gorleston were seen flashing a light and waving their arms. The IRB was launched immediately to investigate and the life-boat Louise...
Rescued from a Minesweeper
An injured man on board the Margate life-boat. He was one of four of the crew of a minesweeper who were seriously injured when she was blown up and sank on 20th November, 1939.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rupert Lifeboat Collector Par Excellence: Captain and Mrs F Wilson's African Grey Parrot Does His Trick of Duty at Their Front Gate Being a Talkative Bird He Is Very Persu
Rupert, lifeboat collector par excellence: Captain and Mrs F. Wilson's African grey parrot does his trick of duty at their front gate. Being a talkative bird, he is very persuasive and in just three weeks last August, collected more than... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
"Saved at Last," A Tale of the Ramsgate Life-Boat
CHAP, I.—LIFE-BOAT WEATHER AND LIFE- BOAT WORK
Do we not often find, in the winter's even-ing, that our warm rooms seem more cosy, and the flames lap more brightly and closely round the half-consumed log, as a...
Category: Articles