LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Foreign Life-Boat Services. II
The United States (State Service.
Established 1848).
Since the publication of our extensive note on this Service in the November issue of The Lifeboat we have received the Annual Report of the U.S....
Category: Services
Anne
Coaster aground LATE ON THE NIGHT OF Saturday November 9, 1985, the Dutch coaster, Anne, radioed that she was dragging her anchor and getting close to Long Scar rocks near Hartlepool. There was a north-north-easterly strong gale force 9,...
Two Dinghies (5)
Seven lifeboat stations involved in 21 hour search for missing anglersA complex service on 14 April 1991 involved all seven lifeboat stations from Dover to Newhaven, lasted 21 hours and involved searching of an area of 3,400 square miles for...
Letters
Speedboat on Pye Sands • It was with very great interest that I read of the gallantry awards to members of the crew of Edian Courtauld for their successful rescue of a speedboat's complement on August 15, 1973 ('Lifeboat Services'...
Category: Correspondence
Eastbourne:
EASTBOURNE: Two 11-year-old boys were rescued by Eastbourne's I6f't I) class inflatable lifeboat on the evening of Thursday, January 7, 1988, after their small dinghy filled with water and began to sink. Their cries for help were... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Development of the Lifeboat from Page 58
from page 58 no doubt be true to say that this fourth period—say the last 20 to 25 years— has seen the greatest and most far reaching changes in the history of the RNLI.
These changes include the advent of the small...
Category: Articles
Notes on the Quarter
A NEW SETTING for the R.N.L.I.'s annual general meeting was the occasion for a major policy statement, when the Chairman, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.G.B., D.S.O., took the opportunity of offering, to adapt an American political...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (13)
JANUARY 26TH. - COVERACK, CORNWALL.
A British aeroplane was reported to have crashed off The Manacles, and the life-boat got away in three minutes, but she found nothing. - Rewards, £11 14s. 3d..
An Aeroplane (13)
APRIL 13TH. - BARROW, LANCASHIRE.
An aeroplane had been reported down, but a high-speed launch from Fleetwood picked up the five survivors. - Rewards, £13 19s. (See Millom, “Services of Auxiliary Rescue-boats,” page 66...
An Aeroplane (13)
APRIL 18TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE.
An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but her crew of two were lost and a fishing boat picked up their dinghy.- Rewards, £4 13s..