LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Angling Boat Lady Jane
Three saved during Southland's worst weather in a decade and a half \ Southend lifeboat Helmsman John Foster has been awarded the RNLI's Bronze Medal for bravery with Crew Members Michael Whistler and Ian Rees receiving the Thanks on...
A Life-Boat Day In Floods
LIFE-BOAT DAY in Chippenham, Wilts., was held on September 16th, and in spite of the fact that the Kiver Avon was ten feet above its normal level, and the centre of the town flooded, the collectors went about their work undismayed and...
Category: Articles
Lucy, of Sunderland
On the 11th De- cember, the brig Lucy, of Sunderland, was stranded on the shoal part of the Barber Sand. The beachmen put off in one of their yawls, and endeavoured to get the vessel off.
In this, however, they failed; and...
Profile of the Offshore Fleet
Lifeboats stationed round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland WATSON AND BARNETT, Oakley, Waveney, Thames, Arun or Clyde . . . names which conjure up the lifeboats of the RNLI's offshore fleet, each with her own characteristics, her...
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‘SHE WENT QUICK’
With a trawler in trouble off a remote archipelago in Shetland, Lerwick lifeboat crew would need to pull on insider knowledge and all their experience if they were to get the five fishermen to safety
Coxswain Alan Tarby’s...
Category: Articles
Two Boys
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 10.2 on the night of the 30th of August, 1960, the Irish naval authorities at Cobh informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Keizersveer of Amsterdam had an Irish fishing boat intow about a...
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of e, life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy (Tmmimmn 28 Ibi., minimum 25 Ibs.) to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support...
Category: Articles
An Angling Boat
Injured angler A RED FLARE in the Bracklesham Bay area was spotted at 1005 on Sunday, December 7, 1986 by Hayling Island Crew Member Graham Raines, who advised Solent Coastguard. The station honorary secretary agreed to alert the crew and...
The James Stevens No. 20 at Queenstown
The James Stevens No 20 at Queenstown. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs