LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat
ONE night in Autumn, lately past, remembered by a chilly blast, That swept o'er all the country wide, While sitting at the warm fireside, I mused on all the trials sore, Of Mariners around our shore; As day by day, the papers tell,...
Category: Poetry
Athelduchess
AUGUST 21ST. - ST. DAVID’S, AND ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE. Late on the night of the 20th August, the coastguard reported a vessel ashore inside the south-east rocks of the Smalls off the coast of Pembrokeshire.
She was the...
The French Life-Boat Service
By M. GRANJON de LEPINEY, Administrates Delegue.
[The footnotes are by the Editor of " The Life-Boat"] THE Central Society for Saving the Ship- wrecked * was founded in 1865 in the following circumstances. The...
Category: Articles
The Late Commander Thomas Holmes, R.N.
WE record, with great regret, the death on 20th September, at the age of eighty-one, of Commander Thomas Holmes, R.N., late chief inspector of life-boats. Commander Holmes was a Norfolk man, hailing from Morning- thorpe Manor House, Long...
Category: Obituaries
From the Director
Brian Miles, Director of the RNLI, looks back on 1990 - and forward into the new decade and beyond The deadline for the Winter journal brought home to me that another year has elapsed, a year which I believe has been one of continuing and...
Category: Articles
Rnli News
£50 million modernisation programme The Duke of Atholl, chairman of the RNLI, announced a £50 million boat building programme to modernise the lifeboat fleet. Speaking at the Institution's annual general meeting, he said,...
Category: Articles
Bronze Medal for Weymouth
AT the beginning of June the twin-screw motor yacht Mite (a converted naval motor launch 110 feet long) was coming up Channel on her way from Malta to London. On the 6th of June, when she was fifteen miles west of Portland Bill, both her...
Category: Services
Four Attempts to Reach Life-Boat
AT 7.15 on the evening of the 26th of November, 1954, the honorary secretary of the Valentia (Co. Kerry) life-boat station, Mr. Kieran O'Driscoll, was informed by Valentia Radio that the motor trawler Ros Airgead was aground on White...
Category: Services
Panther
THE GOODWINS SPARE A SHIP As described on page 126, the Goodwin Sands seldom spare vessels that run aground. But occasionally they are lucky. At 3.36 p.m. on 30th March, 1971, the Walmer honorary secretary picked up a message reporting that...
Wigeon
Adrift OBAN COASTGUARD picked up a distress call in the early hours of Tuesday June 14 from the 20ft yacht Wigeon with an elderly couple on board. Wigeon had broken adrift from a mooring in Craignure Bay, Isle of Mull, her outboard engine...