LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Maid of the Harbour
Casualties as pleasure boat collides with landing craft Poole's 33ft Brede and Boston Whaler lifeboats were called to a major emergency inside Poole Harbour on 26 June 1988.
Maid of the Harbour, a large pleasure craft...
Salcombe Life-Boat Disaster
Sunset and evening star, And one clear call {or me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.
Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell When I embark;...
Category: Articles
Provider A and Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 12.45 on the afternoon of the 10th of April, 1951, fishermen told the coxswain that there was a heavy swell on the harbour bar, and the fishing vessels Provider A and Lead Us could be seen making for Whitby. At 1.10 the...
Cook Book
The sale of the R.N.L.I. cook book, which was described on page 175 of the October Journal, is going very well and many people have praised the selection of recipes as catering for many tastes. Mrs. Keen has been at pains to include simple...
Category: Articles
Shoreline
LOOKING BACK on this year's London Boat Show, held at Earls Court from January 5 to 15, there is no doubt that, for Shoreline, it was one of the most successful shows we have ever had. We can look back with pride! The Shoreline team,...
Category: Articles
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Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—The motor life-boat William Evans was launched at 7.30 P.M. on the llth December, in answer to an urgent call from the neighbouring island of Inishnaine, for a priest to administer last rites to a dying man. No other...
Sheringham's Retiring Coxswain By Edward Wake-Walker
Henry 'Joyful' West, BEM, retired as coxswain of Sheringham lifeboat at the end of 1984 after a long and distinguished career. He is a man who would rather talk about the achievements of others than his own, but the 'Joyful'...
Category: Articles
List of the Rewards for Saving Life from Wrecks, Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
South Western Division Tanker aground GUERNSEY LIFEBOAT, the 52' Arun Sir William Arnold, had been called out at 2250 on July 14, 1975, to escort a fishing boat under tow into harbour.
She returned from this service at...
Category: Services
Wreck Chart of the British Isles for the Year 1908-1909
- _ (_ 0 1908-1909/9 SHOWING ALSO THE PRESENT LIFE BOAT STATIONS.OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION
Category: Charts