LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Help to the Fighting Services.
The year was notable for the help which the life-boat service, while following its single aim of saving life, was able to give to the fighting services at Dunkirk and in the waters round our coasts.
Nineteen life-boats took...
Category: Articles
Pilot Me & The Royal Empire
Early on the morning of the 19th January several fishing boats put off, the weather at the time being fine, and the wind westerly. Later on the wind changed to the north and blew a gale, and the sea got up and broke heavily off the harbour...
The Angling Launch Wygyr
Angling launch THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Beaumaris lifeboat station was informed by Penmon Coastguard at 1220 on Sunday December 13, 1981, that the 35ft angling launch Wygyr was in difficulties and needed urgent assistance off Puffin Island...
Heroes of the Oar. (From "Watchers By the Shore," With the Author's Permission.)
HIGH flies the spray, and landward leap The hungry savage seas, Whose white manes curl in seething hate Before the lashing breeze, That shrieks its thousand league-long self Across the spume-flecked waste, To line the coast with wrecks and...
Category: Poetry
Notes of the Quarter
THE DUKE OF KENT, President of the Institution, visited the RNLI headquarters and depot at Poole on Tuesday morning, October 7, attended by his Private Secretary, Lt-Cdr Richard Buckley, and accompanied by HM Lieutenant for Dorset, Col Sir...
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The Life-Boat
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of the different types of Life-boats used in the Institution's service. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view. Fig. 2 the " plan " or deck view. Fig....
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Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 3rd Nov. 1853. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair.
Confirmed Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Wreck and Reward, and Life-boat Sub-Committees.
Reported the deaths...
Category: Committee
Feature Lifeboats on the Thames
On 20 August 1989 the pleasure cruiser Marchioness and dredger Bowbelle collided on London's River Thames beneath Southwark Bridge. The accident, which cost the lives of 51 people, led to demands for a fundamental review of emergency...
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The Aberdeen Motor Drifter Saxon
Cullercoats, Northumberland. —At 1.32 P.M. on the 23rd April, 1938, the Seaton Sluice coastguard reported a motor drifter on fire about two miles east of St. Mary's Island. A moderate N.N.E.
breeze was blowing, with a...
To the Help of Birds
On May 3ist the Selsey life-boat travelled three miles in a choppy sea and heavy rain to the rescue of eight men seen drifting on a raft. The life-boat found that the raft was a R.A.F. target, and as she approached it the men flew away. They...
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