LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Timber Ship Fred Everard
Cargo shifted ON PASSAGE bound from Archangel to the Mediterranean, timber ship Fred Everard developed a list when her deck cargo shifted and, at 0143 on Monday, September 26, sent out an urgency signal PAN. Her position was 61°...
Amelia Lauro
MARCH 7TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 9.45 P.M.
a message was received from the Gorleston coastguard that the South Knoll Light-vessel had reported a ship on fire two miles N.E.
of the...
The Admiralty Register of Wrecks for 1853
IN the Life-boat Journal, No. 11, we gave as one reason for the discontinuance of the register of shipwrecks, on the coasts of the United Kingdom, which we had previously inserted, that a Wreck Register was being compiled at the Admiralty...
Category: Articles
Your Letters
A helping hand After leaving the River Crouch on 22 October 19951 unfortunately crossed the Swallow Tail Spit too close to the buoy at 1530, two hours before low water, and went aground.
The sea was calm and apart from...
Category: Correspondence
Bye-Laws of the Royal National Life-boat Institution
I. THE Annual General Meeting prescribed by the Charter shall be held on the 4th day of March, or as soon after as may be convenient,, and the same and all other General Meetings shall be held at such time and place as the Committee of...
Category: Meetings
An Intrepid Rescue In Guernsey
and 17 stations with rocket apparatus only, so that Sweden has a fleet of 26 motor life-boats, and 2 pulling (one with an outboard motor).
Turkey There were no services to British vessels.
There are 4 life...
Category: Articles
Lt-Cdr Tim Fetherston-Dilke the New Chief Coastguard
Lt-Cdr Tim Fetherston-Dilke, the new Chief Coastguard,. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On September 1 1976 Walmer Ilb and 37' 6" Rother Lifeboat Hampshire Rose Went to the Help of Yacht Ay Bee Gee Holed By a Baulk of Timber First Crew Member
On September 1, 1976, Walmer ILB and 37' 6" Rother lifeboat Hampshire Rose went to the help of yacht Ay Bee Gee, holed by a baulk of timber.
First, crew members helped her skipper, a Shoreline member who also helps... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
It Had Never Been Done Before—Not Surprisingly—
/(had never been done before—not surprisingly—so this intrepid group set out to do it: (I to r) Ray Hea/ey, his wife Maureen, Remo Mele, Gillian Earles and George McLeod. The feat was to water ski the 50 miles between Lochinver and Stornoway... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Top Left Pic: Participants In the Inner city surf Programme.
Top left pic: Participants in the Inner city surf programme.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs