LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
TORQUAY, DEVONSHIRE.—On the 2nd May a large four-masted barque was observed at anchor in Torbay flying a signal for assistance. The Coastguard reported the matter to the Harbour Master, and within a quarter of an hour of the crew being...
Category: Services
Twenty-Two's Watch
LIFE-BOATMEN all over the country at one time or another have read about, or even participated in, a rescue carried out by an R.A.F. helicopter.
From time to time, too, helicopters make the headlines, not for some dramatic...
Category: Articles
Coxswain Thomas Sinclair
COXSWAIK THOMAS SINCLAIR, of Aberdeen, who died at the age of seventy, had been one of the outstanding coxswains in the Service. He retired in 1949 after having- been coxswain for nearly twenty-five years, during which more than 180 lives...
Category: Obituaries
News from the Branches
Since the War only three issues of THE LIFEBOAT have been published annually. Owing to the great increase in the amount of matter for publication, particularly in reports of the work of Branches, the Committee have dec ded to revert to the...
Category: Branches
The Most Dangerous Part of a Boat...... is the skipper
Statistics show that more than half the RNLI's lifeboat launches are to pleasure craft. The situation is one which the pleasure boating fraternity is aware of, and which the sport's national body is making every effort to remedy.<...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, llth Sept., 1862.—Capt. Sir EDWARD PERROTT, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Bead and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.<...
Category: Committee
Lifeboat Services
Eastern Division Explosion at sea AN EXPLOSION, on the night of November 15, 1973, aboard the 300-ton deep-sea trawler Boston Jaguar, 37 miles 020° (T) from Cromer, Norfolk, left the ship without steering gear, with her mate killed and...
Category: Services
The Help of Theatres and Cinemas
IN The, Lifeboat for last February an account was given of the help received from cinemas during the display of two films, " Down to the Sea in Ships " and " Women Who Give," which had Life-boat interest. These films were...
Category: Articles
Lifeboats In Action
Rescue against the clock Drifting closer to a rocky shore minute by minute, the yacht Headstrong needed help to survive the night. But would the Plymouth lifeboat reach them in time?Hampered by fishing gear around her propeller, Headstrong...
Category: Services
Zamorin
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—Just be- fore midnight on the 6th of July, 1957, the police telephoned that a motorist had reported seeing three red rockets off Kildalloig three miles south of Camp- beltown. The life-boat City of Glasgow II put...