LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
March
MARCH Launches 90. Lives rescued 132.
MARCH 2ND. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON. At 4.30 A.M. information was received from the King’s Harbour Master that signals of distress were being shewn in Jennycliffe Bay, and the motor life-boat...
Category: Services
Our Energetic Mr. Hawkes
No matter what is afoot—agricultural shows, flag days and so on—Mr.
A. W. Hawkes, who is an energetic member of the Ipswich branch, can be relied upon to go almost anywhere and to tackle almost any fund-raising scheme....
Category: Donations
Where Help Is Wanted
In the North-West of England.
THE Institution is anxious to form or develop Branches in the following places the North-West of England, and would be very grateful to any readers of The Lifeboat who could help it to do...
Category: Advertisement
Special delivery
‘HE SAVED HER FROM DISGRACE’
Janet Gleeson’s well researched biography of our founder, Sir William Hillary, The Lifeboat Baronet revealed vital new information that removes a slur on the great...
Category: Articles
September (1)
SEPTEMBER MEETING EGLINTON, Co. LONDONDERRY. About 12.15 in the afternoon of the 16th of December, 1944, the Eglinton coastguard received an SOS from the R.N.A.S. Eglinton, that a Corsair aeroplane had crashed into the sea 200 yards off...
Category: Services
RESCUE
Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards carry out thousands of rescues every year (see launches on page 36). Here are just some of those caught on camera, and see the list below for more reports:
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Category: Articles
The Romanian Cargo Ship Savinesti
Blizzard ON THURSDAY MORNING February 15 a Romanian cargo ship, Savinesti, with 28 people on board was reported in distress 125° 37.5 miles from Spurn Point; she had engine failure and was dragging her anchor. After liaison (made more...
Life-Boat Gear
1. Anchor and cable ; anchor for a 30-feet boat, not less than, 75 Ibs. weight; cable 60 fathoms of 3 -inch rope.
The anchor and cable to be secured to the floor of the boat amidships.
2. A grapnel 25 Ibs....
Category: Articles
Four Attempts to Go Alongside Yawl
ON the morning of the 1st June, 1961, Mr. E. R. Copeman, the honorary sec- retary of the Teesmouth branch, was travelling with his wife on the coast road towards Redcar when his wife noticed a yacht close inshore in broken water. Mr. Copeman...
Category: Services
Feature Expansion and Consolidation
The Life-boat journal was first published at a time of immense change for the Institution. In an extract from his book Riders of the Storm, Ian Cameron recounts some of the major events from that period of the RNLI's history.The...
Category: Articles