LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sunderland Boat and Lifting Gear Perspective Diagram
THERE are more ways than one of launching a Life-boat. Perhaps the most elementary way now in use is that of pushing her into the water over skids thrown down on the foreshore.
The quickest, and therefore the most...
Category: Drawings
Peace Time Record of Lives Saved: Outstanding Year's Work Reported
THE President of the R.N.L.I., the Duke of Kent, said at the 148th annual meeting at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on 18th May, that the Institution rested on four great pillars, each of which was essential to its health and...
Category: Articles
January
JANUARY Launches 71. Lives rescued 221.
JANUARY 3RD. - ARRANMORE, CO. DONEGAL. A fishing boat was caught in a S.E. gale with a very rough sea. The motor life-boat K.T.J.S. was launched at 10.20 A.M., found the boat five...
Category: Services
The Late George Palmer, Esq.
WE recently had to record the death of our late valued Chairman, Mr. WILSON, and now his old friend and coadjutor in the cause of humanity, Mr, PALMER, late Deputy- Chairman of the Royal Shipwreck Institution, and Inventor of the Life-boats...
Category: Obituaries
Focus on Lytham-St. Anne's
IT is doubtful whether any other life-boat station in the British Isles could claim such a beginning. For the Lytham-St. Anne's station, in Lancashire, which is responsible for a conventional life-boat, an IRB, a tractor and two boarding...
Category: Articles
Schesaplana (1)
Capsized motor cruiser THE DUTY COASTGUARD on watch in the lookout of Solent MRSC on the spring bankholiday Monday, May 25, reported at 1256 that a vessel had capsized in the vicinity of the Shingles Bank Elbow Buoy at the western approaches...
People and Places
On Station The following lifeboats have taken up station and relief fleet duties: ALL-WEATHER Workington - Tyne 47-028 (ON 1141) Sir John Fisher on 8 June 1992.
Peel -Mersey 12-22 (ON 1181) Ruby Clery on 10 June...
Category: Articles
Norman
Save Our Pot Plants Margate's Mersey class lifeboat Leonard Kent was called to another sinking incident in the South East Division, this time on Boxing Day 1992.
The elderly 35ft motor cruiser Norman, with three people...
Your Letters
Face in the cliffs Reading the Spring 1998 issue of The Lifeboat. I noticed the photograph of Valentia's Severn class lifeboat. Yet I wonder if any other readers noticed that just above the bow of the lifeboat, in the edge of the rugged...
Category: Correspondence
Letters (Continued from Page 65)
where she had 53 service launches at 16 stations and rescued a further 19 lives. She was one of the 19 lifeboats that went to Dunkirk in 1940.
Getting back to the sponsored marathon row, on the way down the River Thames,...
Category: Correspondence