LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1866
This large number of 714 lives is entirely independent of the 180 lives saved by the rocket apparatus, which is worked by the Coastguard, and provided by the Board of Trade, who continue to co-operate heartily and zealously with the NATIONAL...
Category: Meetings
Membership News
Introduce a friend With this issue of THE LIFEBOAT is a leaflet entitled 'Introduce a friend'.
We hope you will pass this leaflet on to a friend, neighbour or perhaps relative, who may interested in supporting the...
Category: Articles
Income and Expenditure for 1949
1948 £ *. d.
148,673 4 1 360 4 2 .47,180 13 3 143 7 11 32,729 2 1 14,801 14 7 1,039 17 11 2,010 4 6 246,938 8 6 20,782 15 - 41 - - 2,165 17 6 2,652 4 6 1,816 6 5 181 2 6 27,639 5 11 27,042 18 8 23,516 4 7 198 18 10...
Category: Accounts
Coima
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 1.46 on the afternoon of the 24th of August, 1953, the Foreland coastguard tele- phoned that the Hayling Island Sail- ing Club had reported that a yacht off Chichester harbour had lost her rudder and was in...
Barometers for Life-Boat Stations
PUBLIC attention has frequently been called to the invaluable use of a barometer for indicating a coming storm. It not unfrequently happens that a notice of a gale is given by a barometer two or three days before it actually takes place.<...
Category: Articles
Tenby September 29 1986:
Tenby, September 29, 1986: Summer was officially over, yet on this day Tenby was bustling with visitors, and overcast skies cleared miraculously by afternoon allowing the sun to shine warmly on a town celebrating a very special event. It was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Carillion, of Cowes
RACE CASUALTY While the yacht Carillion of Cowes was taking part in the Fastnet race on 5th August, 1971, she struck rocks off the Lizard and was damaged.
At 9.30 p.m. the life-boat Duke of Cornwall (Civil Service JVo. 33)...
Search for Aircraft
IN the last quarter of 1957 there were a number of long and exacting searches by life-boats after aircraft had crashed. Unfortunately, as happens so often when aircraft come down in the sea, it was impossible to rescue any survivors. Details...
Category: Articles
Four Inshore Rescue Boats Leaving the Cowes Repair Centre for Delivery to Coastal Stations.
Four inshore rescue boats leaving the Cowes Repair Centre for delivery to coastal stations.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Joint Services Training Yacht Kukri, and Zingana
Rescue by fishermen A NORTH-EASTERLY NEAR GALE, force 7, gusting to force 8 was blowing and the sea in St Mary's Harbour, Isles of Scilly, was rough when at about 1625 on the afternoon of Tuesday May 22, 1984, the joint services training...