LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter
That the life-boat service is busier every year is now becoming a clearly established fact, and it received further confirmation in the first six months of the present year. In 1965 an all-time record for launches was established, yet there...
Category: Articles
Radio Equipment In Life-Boats
Inspector of Machinery (Electrical], Royal National Life-boat Institution.
ViTH the exception of seven short- range boats, all the Institution's life-boats, both in the active and in the active reserve fleet, are...
Category: Articles
A Canoe
SCOTT'S FEAT IN DINGHY NEWS of a boy in the water clinging to an upturned boat on 12th April led to the Mumbles, Glamorganshire coxswain, Mr. Derek Scott, B.E.M., taking out a dinghy as with the strong ebb tide which was running he...
(Below) for the Duke There Is Always Time to Talk With the Children
. . And (below) for the Duke there is always time to talk with the children. - View image in PDF
photographs by courtesy of Spectrum Photographic Studio. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Harold Coyde, Who Was Awarded the Institution's Silver Medal for a Service In 1964,
Coxswain Harold Coyde, who was awarded the Institution's silver medal for a service in 1964, is in charge of the Torbay life-boat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rude awakening
There was an early wake-up call for Tenby lifeboat crew in September when a lone sailor found himself aground amid pounding waves
The lone yachtsman aboard his 7m boat Maridadi had dropped...
Category: Articles
Christiane II
Newhaven, Sussex. — On the 26th of March, 1951, the Newhaven life- boat rescued the crew of six of the Belgian trawler Christiane II, of Ostend.
Rewards: to Coxswain William JHarvey, the 'thanks of the Institution on...
November (1)
NOVEMBER MEETING MARGATE, KENT. At nine o’clock on the night of the 5th of July, 1946, the Margate coastguard asked a local boatman to go to the help of the fishing boat Barbie, which appeared to be drifting seawards. A light south-west...
Category: Services
Correction
In the last edition of the Lifeboat in a news item titled Honours for RNLI people, we incorrectly stated that Bob Bulgin BEM had been involved with Port Isaac Lifeboat Station for 6 years.
It should have read 16 years – of...
Category: Articles
Swamped in rough seas
3 June: In high winds and rough seas, a dismasted yacht drifted towards the dangerous cliffs and tidal race of St Alban’s Head, Dorset. The yacht had been swamped and her cockpit filled with water. Swanage’s...
Category: Articles