LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services
LONG TOW IN HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS Eleven men and fishing vessel saved In winds gusting to 90 knotsA difficult service in winds up to almost 90 knots earned coxswain / mechanic Hewitt Clark of the Lerwick lifeboat a Bronze Medal, recognising...
Category: Services
An Open Salmon Yawl
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — At 3.15 in the afternoon of the 2nd of April, 1948, the Duncannon police tele- phoned that a small boat was in distress, and the motor life-boat Duke of Con- naught, on temporary duty at the station, was...
A Four-Day Christmas Art Exhibition Was Mounted By Littlehampton Branch
A four-day Christmas art exhibition was mounted by Littlehampton branch at the auction rooms of Peter Cheney, the station's chairman and honorary secretary. Fifty-two West Sussex artists exhibited and many pictures and craft goods were... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Keep on Running By Heather Deane Deputy Public Relations Officer Rnli
THE AMERICAN obsession with health and physical fitness has spread, to a certain degree, to this country in recent years, resulting in the popularity of jogging as a sport for growing numbers of people.
Members of...
Category: Articles
Twenty-Seven Hours on Service
FOR a service lasting 27 hours, as a result of which 19 people were saved from the motor yacht, Braemar, Coxswain Matthew Lethbridge, junior, of St. Mary's, Scilly Isles, has been awarded the silver medal for gallantry. Two members of...
Category: Services
Letters
Waves The cover picture of the winter 1982/ 83 journal, number 482, the picture of The White Rose of Yorkshire returning to sea off Whitby Harbour, depicts vividly the dangerous sea conditions our lifeboatmen continually face around our...
Category: Correspondence
An Ancient Life-Belt
WE are indebted to the courtesy of Mr. R. EARP, of Austin Friars, for the follow- ing very quaint and interesting descrip- tion of a method of constructing a life-belt, extracted by him from an old Black Letter book published nearly three...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (187)
NOVEMBER 28TH. - FENIT, CO: KERRY.
A German aeroplane had crashed near the Blasket Islands and three of the crew were safe, but two others were adrift in the aeroplane’s rubber boat. A search was made, but nothing was...
Carrying on Though Crippled
IN the last issue of The Life-boat two cases were recorded of ladies who had continued their work for the life-boat service when crippled by serious acci- dents. There is a third to be added to them. Miss Silvester, the honorary secretary of...
Category: Articles
Hilda, Premier, Albatross, B.S Colling, Sceptre, Hyperion
The motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched at 9.30 A.M. on the 5th December, as a gale had sprung up from the N.E., and several local fishing boats were at sea.
A heavy sea was running, and heavy rain falling. The life...