LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The French Cutter Naia
FRENCH CUTTER ESCORTED INTO HARBOUR Ramsgate, Kent. At 9.38 on the evening of the 1st September, 1962, the east pier watchman informed the coxswain that a yacht was ashore on the Brake sands and was firing distress flares. At ten o'clock...
Thalia and the Erla
TWO YACHTS ESCORTED OVER BAR Salcombe, Devon. At 3.10 on the afternoon of the 3rd August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was drifting in Salcombe estuary with her sails torn.
Ten...
The S.S. Fireglow
NOVEMBER 8TH. - CLACTON-ON-SEA (AT BRIGHTLINGSEA), ESSEX During the afternoon the naval base at Brightlingsea reported that two steamers were sinking in the West Swin. A strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat...
After Her Righting Trial City of London IV Hauled Out Again at Fairey's Yard: a Group of Her Builders Were on Board Photograph By Courtesy of David Trotter
After her righting trial City of London i.v hauled out again at Fairev's vard: a group of her builders were on board. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of David Trotter. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Taunton
The s.s. Taunton, of Liverpool, whilst bound from New- port to Rouen, on the 27th December, with a cargo of stores for the French government, was in danger owing to her anchors not holding. When she was about one mile from Gwythian Beach,...
The Best Essay
BY ALFRED ROBINSON (12}), Warple Way Mixed School, Wandsworth.
Why I admire the Life-Boatman.
MOST of us have had the pleasure of a holiday by the sea during the summer, and probably have enjoyed the...
Category: Articles
The 100th Life-Boat
WHEN Messrs. J. Samuel White, the famous shipbuilders of Cowes, delivered the Aberdeen life-boat in June, 1951, they had completed their hundredth life-boat for the Institution.
Their life-boat work goes back over a hundred...
Category: Articles
The Royal Sovereign Lightvessel
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 1.6 in the morning of the 20th of November, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a man had been badly injured on the Royal Sovereign Lightvessel. After further information had been obtained the motor life-boat Jane...
The Naming Ceremony at Gorleston on 17th May, 1967, of the New 44-Foot Steel Life-Boat Khami
The naming ceremony at Gorleston on 17th May, 1967, of the new 44-foot steel life-boat Khami. This was given by Mr. & Mrs. T. 6- Bedwell.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Across the Years
50 years ago the RNLI linked the Battle of Britain with the Isle of Man Fifty years ago this autumn, at a little before 10 o'clock on Tuesday 3 September 1940, the emotionless voice of an airfield controller scrambled a small group of...
Category: Articles