LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Christmas Gales.

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat's Four Launches in one Day.

THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy...

CHAPTER I.

A WRECK OFT MARGATE.

THE night of Sunday, the 12th of February, in the present year, was what sailors call a very dirty night. Heavy masses of clouds skirted the horizon as the sun get; and,...

In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded on pages 230, 238 and 244, the following launches on service were made during the months March, April and May, 1970, inclusive: Abersoch,...

Tugs aground ST ANNE'S COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of St David's lifeboat station at 2020 on Sunday October 18, 1981, that the tug Vernicos Giorgos, with two other tugs in tow, had a rope round her propeller and was...

Barrow, Lancashire.—At 12.40 on the afternoon of the 4th of December, 1953, the life-boat coxswain received a link telephone call from the Venezuelan destroyer Nueva Esparta, which was undergoing gunnery trials in the Irish Sea, that a...

(S«e Diagrams «« next page.) The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat. Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house...

FOR the third year, in the seven years since the war ended, the Life-boat Service set up a new record. In 1952 its boats went out to the rescue 657 times. That is more than ever before in time of peace, and though the figure is considerably...

Recognising our people’s achievements – as well as reporting our progress – has always been at the heart of the RNLI’s annual meetings. But how we do that has changed with the times, and is about to change again …