LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Pilot Gig
BRIXHAM, DEVON.—At 10.45 A.M. on the 18th January, on the urgent solicitation of a number of experienced master mariners, sailors and seamen, the City of Exeter Life-boat was launched to render assistance to a pilot gig proceeding to put...
Ferry Good Idea
Yacht race supponers Kelp to raise funds by watching the action from the safety of Solent Cat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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SWIMMER WAS WEARY At 11.38 a.m. on nth December, 1964, the police told the honorary secretary that cries for help had been heard to seaward of the western undercliff by a local doctor. Visibility was very poor due to fog. At 11.46 the...
Cover Picture
Sunset watch for the Margate lifeboatman, a memorial to nine men who lost their lives in the early morning of December 2, 1897, when Margate town surf boat Friend of All Nations capsized on her way to help the ship Persian Empire of West... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter
Last year the Institution had a deficit of nearly £124,000, and the figures for revenue and expenditure at the end of the first six months of the present year indicate that in 1967 there is every likelihood of an even larger deficit. At...
Category: Articles
Focus on Dungeness
A visit to the Kentish life-boat station and its crew is described in what is hoped will become a regular series on life-boat stations by Margaret Peter.
The men of Dungeness who form the life-boat crew are proud of their...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
DUNMORE, EAST, Co. WATERFORD.—It having been reported that a large steamer in distress was anchored off Slade, co. Wexford, during a whole gale from the S.8.W. and a very heavy sea, the Life-boat Henry Dodd was promptly launched at 12,15 P.M...
Category: Services
Island Maid and Angele
On the after- noon of 12th November, two vessels, the schooner Island Maid, of Belfast, and the brigantine Angele, of Brest, while endeavouring to enter Padstow Harbour, in a strong "W.N.W. gale accompanied by a heavy sea, struck on the...
Your Letters
Charting progress I recently finished reading the Spring 1994 issue of THE LIFEBOAT and am, as always, utterly amazed at the achievements of the Institution over the years.
The accounts of the lifeboat services in...
Category: Correspondence
A Small Boat Named Bee
At about 4.45 P.M. on 28th December, 1931, information was received from a fisher- man that a small boat, with two men, had been seen drifting helplessly out to sea. A moderate N.N.W. gale was blowing with a rough sea. The Motor Life-boat...