LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services to German Yachts. Thanks of the Institution to Clacton-On-Sea
THERE were exceptionally heavy gales at the end of May and the beginning of June, 1938. Thirty-two life-boats were launched on service during the five days from 29th May to 2nd June, the majority on the south-east and south coasts, and they...
Category: Services
The Boathouse at Largs
The boathouse at Largs demonstrates why the RNLt shoreworks department has a deserved reputation for the excellent quality of their buildings. Despite a severe pounding from the ferocious sea, no damage was done, the building did not flood... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Wreck of Two Welsh Trawlers. Six Awards for Gallant Service
IN the early morning of 14th February, with a heavy sea running, a Welsh steam-trawler, the Tenby Castle, went ashore on the rocks in Clifden Bay, Con- nemara, on the west of Ireland, a coast where there are many rocky islands, the great...
Category: Awards
A Voyage of Two Motor Life-Boats
AT the beginning of September the two Motor Life-boats for Montrose and Longhope went to their Stations from the Building Yard at Cowes. Com- mander B. D. Drury, O.B.E., K.D., R.N.R., the Northern District Inspector, •was in command, both...
Category: Articles
Fishing Boats
Fishermen saved after 20 hours in ferocious blizzard It took a joint effort by the Mallaig and Kyle of Lochalsh lifeboats, RAF and coastguard helicopters and local fishermen to locate two friends who got lost while out whelking on 27...
Shoreline and Storm Force
Membership survey LAST YEAR questionnaires were sent to 2,000 Shoreline members in a survey which aimed to find out more about membership to help future recruiting.
Over 1,000 completed forms were returned and analysed by...
Category: Articles
The Last Meeting Between the Duke of Kent President of the Rnli from 1936 and the Lifeboat Service Was at Plymouth Guildhall on July 11 1942 Just Seven Weeks Bef
The last meeting between the Duke of Kent, President of the KNLIfrom 1936, and the lifeboat service was at Plymouth Guildhall on July 11, 1942, just seven weeks before his death in an air accident.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On March 30 Rear Admiral W J Graham
On March 30 Rear Admiral W. J. Graham (c), director of the Institution, accepted the gift of a radar simulator, to be used for crew training, from Alan Jones (I), of Rediffusion Ltd of Crawlev. The simulator was prepared for the RNLI by a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lord Runciman and Sir Lionel Halsey
THE Institution lost last year two very distinguished members of the com- mittee of management, the Viscount Runciman and Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey, G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., K.C.I.E., C.B.
Lord Runciman, who died on the 14th of...
Category: Obituaries
Your Letters
The Samtampa remembered On browsing through the Summer 1992 edition of THE LIFEBOAT I saw an article refering to the Mumbles lifeboat and Samtampa tragedy.
At that time I was stationed at Porthcawl with the RAF No. 1105...
Category: Correspondence