LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Galway Bay. At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 29th September, 1961, the local doctor asked for the life-boat to take him to Inishmaan to attend a very sick child. The life-boat Peter and Sarah Blake, on temporary duty at the station, left her...
Gold Mist (1)
Dover, Kent.—At 1.20 on the after- noon of the 26th of July, 1957, the Sand- gate coastguard telephoned that the yacht Gold Mist, of Newhaven, appeared to be making little progress in heavy weather two and a half miles south of Copt Point....
Mind the gap
As waves hurled themselves at the narrow harbour entrance, two lifeboat crews needed to combine their skills to get a yacht to safety
A gale force 8 was lashing Newlyn Harbour as Coxswain Patch...
Category: Articles
Books
• Commenting on Yacht Signalling by Bernard Hayman (Nautical Books, Macmillan, £8.95) Rear Admiral W. J.
Graham, director of the Institution, wrote: 'This most comprehensive book on signalling to and from yachts is...
Category: Articles
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APRIL. 15TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO.
DOWN. At midnight on the 14th April, the Donaghadee coastguard asked the life-boat to stand by at the harbour ready to take on board an armed guard. A west wind was blowing, with squalls, and...
Mr. F. H. Barclay, of Cromer
By the death of Mr. F. H. Barclay, of Cromer, on 28th January, at the age of sixty-five, the Institution has lost one of its most trusted and valued honorary secretaries. As the honorary secretary at Cromer, Mr. Barclay was in charge of one...
Category: Obituaries
Welcome
Our supporters, volunteers and lifesavers all seem to have a favourite bit of coastline that means something to them – what’s yours?
Whether it’s a remote, rugged shoreline or gentle seaside spot, there’s a desire to visit...
Category: Contents
Here and There
A YACHT RACE which never finished because there was not enough wind has brought five krugerrands, with a value of over £1,000, for the RNLI. Peter de Savary, chairman of the British syndicate entering the yacht Victory in the 1983...
Category: Articles
Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The first four pages of the Report give an historical sketch of the Institution, and describe its object, composition and management, after which it continues as follows:— COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE INSTITUTION.
During the...
Category: Articles
A Pram Dinghy
Blown offshore AT MERSEA ISLAND in the early evening of Sunday September 11, 1983, although the water was smooth off Cooper's Beach, a north-easterly near gale, force 7, was blowing off the shore and the tide was ebbing. At 1724 Thames...