LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
CAPSIZE IN THE THAMES
The crew at Chiswick on the River Thames is one of our busiest – and in October 2016 they knew it wouldn’t be long before they were called on for the 3,000th time. But who would need their help?
Crew Members Gavin Simmons...
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Index to the Branches
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From the Director
I was very pleased to include a message in the Winter issue of THE LIFEBOAT last year, and I am delighted to do so again.
I mentioned last year various developments in lifeboat design which were being undertaken, and it is...
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Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1903
Jan. 8.—Voted the thanks of the Insti- tution, inscribed on vellum and framed, together with the sum of 21. each, to JAMES HEARNE and three other boatmen for gallantly putting off in a boat and rescuing the crew of four persons from the...
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The Sailing Catamaran Santa Maria
Walmer, Kent. At 3.15 on the after- noon of the 25th of April, 1959, the coxswain was informed that a catamaran with three people on board had capsized. He saw the casualty about four hundred yards off the life-boat house, and at 3.30 the...
The Converted Ship's Boat Piper
FOUR RESCUED FROM CONVERTED SHIP'S BOAT Newbiggin, Northumberland. At 2.54 on the morning of the 13th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a request had been received from the Blyth honorary secretary for the help of...
The American Ship Ellen Southard
On the morning of the 27th September, a very gallant service was performed by the Institution's tubular Life-boat Willie and Arthur, stationed at New Brighton.
During the previous night a storm of unusual violence had...
Notes of the Quarter
The world's first lifeboat station? Until recently it has been accepted that the world's first lifeboat station was at Bamburgh, Northumberland, where, in 1786, Dr John Sharp, the chief administrator of the Crewe Trust, persuaded...
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The Life-Boatman
Blind eyes turn towards the sea, And through a mist of age and time A tiny speck which once a flame Pleads to answer loud maroons Which call 'Distress'. Gnarled hands, Hard as oak, shake, yet once threw Lines, and pulled an oar to...
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The Merchant Vessel Galina
Fortitude off Falmouth Without power, Merchant Vessel Calina found herself at the mercy of a violent storm and drifting dangerously close to shore. With the nearest Coastguard Emergency Towing Vessel (ETV) several hours away, RNLI crew were...