LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Sailing Chanty.
BY CAPTAIN Q. C. A. CRAUFURD, R.N., honorary secretary of the Dungeness life-boat station.
" It seemed scarcely possible that the life-boat could reach the ketch before she broke up....
Category: Songs
Two Trawlers
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 9.10 on the evening of the 3rd of Decem- ber, 1959, a Mayday message wasreceived from two trawlers that they were ashore on the rocks four miles north-east of Dunmore East. The life- boat Annie Blanche...
Burry Port
Burry Port crew member Ryan Griffiths (right) had a hard time convincing fellow crew member Jeremy Williams that they had shared the workload equally after the crew had taken part in a low-water exercise along the very muddy Welsh coast. {In... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Landing Craft of the Royal Navy
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.—At 5.25 in the evening on the 2nd of Feb- ruary, 1950, the pier master reported that a landing craft of the Royal Navy had fired Verey lights in the direction of the Langford Grounds. At 5.55 the life-boat Fifi...
A Rowing Boat and Red Robin
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 2.8 on the afternoon of the 26th of June, 1956, the Foreland coastguard telephoned that a small rowing boat appeared to be in difficulties off Yaveiiand Fort.
At 2.22 the life-boat Jesse Lumb...
A Yacht
Southwold, Suffolk. At 11.35 a.m.
on 2nd September, 1965, the coastguard notified the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had been dismasted approximately one mile offshore and was being blown out to sea. At 11.40 the...
A Silver-Medal Service at Aberdeen
THE Institution has awarded to Coxswain Thomas Sinclair, of Aberdeen, a second-service clasp to the silver medal which he already holds, and special awards to the crew, for the rescue on 5th November last of two men of the crew of eight of...
Category: Medals
An Eye for Detail In Lifeboat Design
HERE ARE two mooring fittings for afloat lifeboats, developed in the RNLI design office from long experience. (Left) Stemhead fitting: designed for use on cold, dark nights, with good finger-holds and nothing 'fiddly' about it. Cast...
Category: Articles
Annual Report
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Tuesday the 14th of March, 1865, His Grace the DUKE OF ARGYLL, K.T., P.O., V.P., in the Chair, the following Report of the Committee was...
Category: Annual Reports
Five Hundred People Attending Gorleston Lifeboat Hall Gave a Big 'send Off to a Mammoth Fund-Raising Event By- Great Yarmouth and District Round Table No 41 The
Five hundred people attending Gorleston lifeboat hall gave a big 'send off to a mammoth fund-raising event by- Great Yarmouth and District Round Table No. 41.
The Tabler.i aim to raise £10,000 for the Institution... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs