LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (96)
AUGUST 20TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea five miles N.E. of Winterton. The life-boat was launched at 1.54 P.M. and reached the position given at 3.10. There she saw and spoke to a...
Tiger Fish
NET CAUSED TROUBLE At i.20 a.m. on nth August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a red flare seen in Portballantrae bay was being investigated. It was one hour before low water with a gentle southwesterly breeze. Twenty...
Launching and Recovery PART II: BEACH LAUNCH by Edward Wake-Walker RNLI Assistant Public Relations Officer (London)
ON A CLEAR DAY at Walmer the unaccustomed visitor can be forgiven for doubting his own knowledge of geography when he sees the bold outline of France, seemingly only a pebble's throw across the curving surface of the English Channel....
Category: Articles
Fishing Boats and Sea Nymph
A stormy westerly breeze was blowing in the early morning of the 27th January, and only three of the North Sunderland cobles ventured out, two or three from Beadnell being out.
During the forenoon the wind freshened until...
Annual Report
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was held at the London Tavern, on Tuesday, the 21st day of March, 1876. His Grace The DUKE of NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L., President of the Institution, being unable to...
Category: Annual Reports
The Latvian Steamer Everline, of Riga and Nolsoy
The First Service of the Lerwick Life-boat.
LAST year the Institution established a Life-boat Station at Lerwick in the Shetlands. This is the first Life-boat Station to be established on those islands, and was made...
A Silver Medal Service at Flamborough
ON the night of 2nd March, 1937, the Grimsby steam trawler, Lord Ernie, bound for Grimsby from the White Sea, with a crew of fifteen men, went ashore under Bempton Cliffs, north of Flamborough Head. The harbour- master at Bridlington picked...
Category: Services
Brighter Dawn and Mary Isabella
On the 14th February, the local fishing fleet was caught at sea by a very sudden strong W.N.W. gale. A rough sea was running. The cobles ran for home, and the life-boat coxswain, first ashore in his coble, launched the motor life- boat L.P....
Rnli News
1,188 lives saved in 1991 Provisional figures for 1991 indicate that lifeboats were called out 4,407 times during last year and that 1,188 people were saved from death at sea by lifeboatmen and women.
Lifeboats were at sea...
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An Aeroplane (14)
MAY 26TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.
At 10.10 in the morning the police reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea opposite Cleveleys Hydro. There was a variable north-east wind and the sea calm.
At...