LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gifts from Crews
THE Institution has received the following gifts from its Crews : — On 23rd July, 1925, the Life-boat at Boulmer, Northumberland, went out to the s.s. Sojourner, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, which had gone ashore in a dense...
Category: Donations
The Mariner's Compass
By Staff-Commander F. J. EVANS, R.N., F.R.S., Superintendent of Compasses to the Admiralty.
[IN the 47th Number of this Journal, when giving a drawing and a short description of the Fluid Compass supplied by this...
Category: Articles
Greetings from cyberspace!
For all those birthdays and other special events in your 2011 diary, why not send an RNLI ecard?
Available in a range of designs to suit every occasion, our ecards are fun, funky and environmentally friendly. They cost...
Category: Articles
The Cypriot Coaster Primrose
Hurricane in Straits of Dover DOVER STRAIT COASTGUARD received a Mayday call at 2204 on Monday, December 1, 1975, from the 1,199-ton phosphate loaded Cypriot coaster Primrose indicating loss of steering gear in a position some 3 miles east...
A Rubber Dinghy
St. Abbs, Berwickshire.—At 1.38 in the afternoon, on the 9th of April, 1950, a message was received that a youth was being blown seawards in a rubber dinghy three-quarters of a mile off Coldingham Sands. Accordingly, at 1.45 the life-boat J....
A Sailing Trawler
15th March. A sailing trawler ran ashore in a fog, but was towed off by a tug.—Rewards, £28 19*..
Golden Charter
GOLD EN CHARTER V Pr e- Paid Funeral Plans THE CARING APPROACH TO A SENSITIVE SUBJECT THERE COMES A TIME in life when it's natural to consider your own funeral...and to think about loved ones and what you'd like to leave them. Not...
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A Dinghy (2)
PROTOTYPE LIFE-BOAT'S FIRST SERVICE Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At a quarter to midnight on Tuesday the 17th September, 1963, the Needles coastguard reported to the coxswain that two boys had been missing on Tennyson Down since 5.45 that...
A U.S.A. Liberator Aeroplane
DECEMBER 30TH. - EASTBOURNE, AND HASTINGS, SUSSEX. At about four o’clock in the afternoon the coastguard informed the Eastbourne life-boat station that a U.S.A.
Liberator aeroplane had come down in the sea off Pevensey Bay....
A Motor Boat and a Rowing Boat
Moelfre, Anglesey. At 1.5 p.m. on iyth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor boat was in difficulties with her engine broken down, in Red Wharf Bay, and a rowing boat which had put out to help was...