LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Chemical Tanker E.C.E.
Channel Island collision Alderney's Trent class Roy Barker I and St Peter Port's Severn class Spirit of Guernsey attended in the early hours of 31 January 2006 after chemical tanker fCf collided with the bulk carrier Crot-Rowecki....
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Cflmene.—Bust oi Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyoji." Double legend, *' Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824....
Category: Medals
The Cypriot Coaster Primrose
Hurricane in Straits of Dover DOVER STRAIT COASTGUARD received a Mayday call at 2204 on Monday, December 1, 1975, from the 1,199-ton phosphate loaded Cypriot coaster Primrose indicating loss of steering gear in a position some 3 miles east...
The Folio Society
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F.E 78 The Cereal
On the afternoon of the 2nd May the Sandgate coastguard telephoned to the coxswain that the fishing boat F.E. 78—the Cereal, of Folkestone—was in difficulties half a mile off Sandgate. A moderate N.E.
gale was blowing,...
The Gratitude of Yachtsmen
ON the 25th of August, 1951, the Wicklow life-boat towed in the yacht Desina which had lost her rudder in heavy seas. One of the yacht's crew wrote to the coxswain: "On behalf of the two other crew members and myself, I wish to...
Category: Correspondence
The Coxswain Goes Aboard
Coxswain J. Dumble, of Sheringham, Norfolk, getting into an aeroplane.
The Coastal Command of the Royal Air Force which protects our coasts, shipping and fishing fleets from attack from the air (and has been nicknamed the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat
LOUD beat the treacherous breakers on the shore; The boiling waves like mountains rise on high, Seeming to vent their wild, tumultuous roar To the dark pall that erstwhile was the sky.
The billows,...
Category: Poetry
The Codling Bank Lightvessel
ROUGH SEAS Wicklow. At 8.15 a.m. on i8th January? X965, an Irish Lights inspector asked the honorary secretary for the use of the life-boat J. W. Archer to take a sick man off the Codling Bank lightvessel fourteen miles east of Wicklow. The...
Picturing the Scene
Photographs are very much part and parcel of THE LIFEBOAT of today - but in Victorian times matters were very different. Barry Cox, the RNLFs Honorary Librarian, on loan from the National Westminster Bank, looks back at the very early...
Category: Articles