LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Naval Trawler Stella Sirus
JANUARY 29TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX.
At 4.30 A.M. the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in distress off the coastguard station and needed a tug. The coxswain assembled the life-boat crew and stood...
The Life-Boat Saturday Movement
SINCE the publication of the last number of our quarterly journal this popular movement has been extending its ope- rations north, south, east and west with marked success, and wherever a Life-boat Saturday demonstration or collection has...
Category: Articles
The Converted Naval Whaler Trojan
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 12.10 early on the morning of the 8th of September, 1958, the coastguard re-ported that a small boat had been seen near the Buxey Sands at 5.30 the evening before. She had engine trouble, but her crew appeared to be...
Plans get the green light
The Borough of Poole has granted the RNLI planning permission, allowing us to commence build work on our new All-weather Lifeboat Centre. This decision is a monumental one that will save the RNLI millions of pounds, bringing future...
Category: Articles
The Harbour Tug Barkis (1)
Capsized tug PILOT CUTTER COXSWAIN Michael Knott was in Lowestoft Bridge Control station when, at 0825 on Monday, August 16, 1976, a radio message was heard on Channel 16 VHP that the harbour tug Barkis had...
The Rnli Looks at the Year's Work and the Future: 97000 Lives Saved Since 1824
THE ANNUAL MEETING of the RNLI this year was split into morning and afternoon sessions at the Royal Festival Hall, London, the first being for the governors and the second for the presentation of medals for gallantry and awards to voluntary...
Category: Meetings
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 the tanker Panther of...
Category: Services
The Caister Disaster Pension Fund
Ix the issue of The Life-boat for last September an article was published on the pension fund which was formed to provide for the forty-two dependants of the nine life-boatmen who lost their lives when the Caister No. 2 life-boat was wrecked...
Category: Articles
The Gardens of Sheffield Park
IN 1950, for the second year, the famous gardens of Sheffield Park, Sussex, were opened to the public on behalf of the Life-boat Service, by the kindness of their owners, Captain and Mrs. A. Gran- ville Soames. They were open for seven...
Category: Donations
The Life-Belt In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, and to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles