LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
ILFRACOMBE.—On the 27th May, 1894, the coastguard reported to the coxswain of the Life-boat that a dismasted vessel was lying off Heale Bay, nearly half a mile from the point. A moderate breeze was blowing from N.N.W., the weather was...
Category: Services
Self-Devotedness of Sailors
SELF-DEVOTEDNESS OF SAILORS.
THERE is no part of the task which in con- ducting this publication we have imposed on ourselves, from which we anticipate more satisfaction than the relation of acts of self- ilevotion and...
Category: Articles
Some Ways of Raising Money
How many branches have had a whole island put at their disposal for a picnic supper? Broadstone branch had such an honour when Mr and Mrs H. J.
Palmer kindly allowed them to use Round Island in Poole Harbour in...
Category: Articles
David Case Hon Sec at Wells In Norfolk Makes Up His Log During An Emergency An Example of the Detail to Be Found In His Painstaking Record Can Be Seen on P
David Case Hon Sec at Wells In Norfolk Makes Up His Log During An Emergency An Example of the Detail To Be Found In His Painstaking Record Can Be Seen On P. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
At the Sharp End
PUMP FLOATED ACROSS TO LEAKING CASUALTY IN STORM FORCE WINDS Five saved in 12-hour service to sinking trawler Number North Division Number's Arun class Kenneth Thelwall was away from her station for 12 hours in winds up to Force 10 when...
Category: Services
News from the Branches. List of New Branches
List of New Branches.
THE following new Branches have been formed since the list published in The Lifeboat for February, 1927 :— Branch.
Abergavenny . . . . .
Abertillery . . . ....
Category: Branches
Lifeboat Services
Eastern Division Atlantic 21 escort IN HIS CAPACITY as harbour master, Helmsman Roger Trigg of Southwold lifeboat station heard at 1625 on Friday January 16 that MFV Concord, a 35ft 6in ex-Liverpool class lifeboat, had broken down...
Category: Services
The Danish Motor Fishing Vessel Opal (1)
HUGE WAVE UPSET LIFE-BOAT ON the evening of 20th January last year the Danish motor fishing vessel Opal sailed from Buckle and set a course for the Fladden fishing grounds. At about 10.30 p.m. it was discovered that the engine room was...
RNLI News
Newspoint In Reserve The financial reserves held by charities came underthe media spotlight recently as a result of a television pro- gramme on Channel 4.
The programme asked whether it was wrong for charities with large...
Category: Articles
Seven-Year-Old Neil West
Seven-year-old Neil West, of Ravensheud, proudly displays the "Jiin'/l Fix It" budge and Storm Force certificate he received after appearing on Jimmy Savile's popular BBC television programme. Neil wrote to the programme... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs