LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
On the Beach
During the night of 18/19 March 1988 a 25ft Jaguar class yacht, on passage from Ramsgate to Gillingham ran aground in strong winds, fog and driving rain at Jury's Gap, Camber.
Rye's C class inflatable The Lewes... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Man and cat saved in gale
Engine failure combined with force 7–8 winds to put a sailor and his cat Sukie in danger 4 miles off the Mull of Kintyre on 3 September. Campbeltown’s Severn class lifeboat, Ernest and Mary Shaw, launched to help. The 7m yacht was rolling...
Category: Articles
Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., K.B.E.
SIR GODFREY BARING, who retired from the Committee of Management in 1956 after having served on the Committee for forty-five years and having been the Committee's Chairman for thirty-three years, died on the 24th of November, 1957. Sir...
Category: Obituaries
Rnli Big Band Concert
DON'T FORGET TO BUY YOUR TICKETS FOR THE BIG BAND CONCERT (in aid of the RNLI) Saturday, March 12th 1977 at 7 p m.
NEW VICTORIA THEATRE WILTON STREET, LONDON SW1 featuring THE BAND OF H,M, ROYAL MARINES THE CHRIS BARBER...
Category: Advertisement
Harriet
About 8 P.M. on the 9th March the schooner Harriet, of Goole, was seen to strike on the Barber Sands, and the Lifeboat Godsend launched and went out to render assistance. There was a moderate breeze from the E., and the Life-boat was...
Centenary of Fowey Station
AT a ceremony in the Council Chamber at Fowey, Cornwall, on the 7th of December, 1959, Lieut.-Commander H.
H. Harvey, Western District Inspector, handed the vellum commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the establish-...
Category: Articles
Don
. At 5.30 A.M., OB the 14th February, the schooner Don, of Aberdeen, bound to Sunderland with chalk, stranded on the South Barber Sand during a strong S.
wind and a heavy sea. The No. 2 Lifeboat promptly went to her...
Abandoned ship
Five French fishermen took to their liferaft in the early hours of Tuesday 8 March when their 17m trawler Cap Lizard ran aground half a mile from Alderney. The island’s Trent class lifeboat Roy Barker...
Category: Articles
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Dover, Kent. At 7.17 on the evening of the 27th of October, 1960, the eastern arm signal station informed the honorary secretary that a man on a bicycle had gone over the wall into the eastern dock. When the life-boat Southern Africa put out...
Dos Amigos
WRECKAGE SIGHTED Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 3.45 p.m. on 23rd February, 1964, the Rescue Co-ordination Centre, Haulbowline, informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Dos Amigos of Newlyn had been reported missing....