LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
When Chipstead (Kent) Sailing Club Held Its Regatta on July 18
When Chipstead (Kent) Sailing Club held its regatta on July 18 the entrance fees for two races were donated to the RNLI. With the profit from a souvenir stall, £79.86 was raised for Sevenoaks and District branch by the end of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
Below: Martin, Ably Assisted By Fred, Prepares to Dive for the Yacht.
Below: Martin, ably assisted by Fred, prepares to dive for the yacht.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Team Members Get Soaked to the Skin Collecting the Cash Bags
Team Members Get Soaked To The Skin Collecting The Cash Bags. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
RACE TO THE RESCUE
After a fishing boat capsized in seconds just outside Rosslare Harbour, Co Wexford, two volunteer crew members had to improvise if they were to respond in time …
Coxswain Eamonn O’Rourke...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat People
In support of the City of Edinburgh lifeboat appeal to fund a 47ft Tyne class lifeboat for Fraserburgh, The Lord and Lady Provost of Edinburgh visited Fraserburgh on April 13 and were taken afloat in the station's present lifeboat, the...
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Fowey, Cornwall. —At 2.3 early on the morning of the 12th of August. 1954, the Polruan coastguard reported that a vessel was sounding blasts on a fog- horn near Gwineas Rock about one mile west of Mevagissey. At 2.31 the life-boat C.D.E.C....
Letters
Lerwick lifeboat I read, with interest, James R. Kay's letter regarding Lerwick lifeboat and his uncle's yacht Soldian, which was published in the autumn issue of THE LIFEBOAT.
It may be of some interest to Mr Kay...
Category: Correspondence
Tadorne
The steam trawler Tadorne, of Boulogne, was wrecked early in the morning of the 29th March, during a fog, a short distance from Howick Haven. The vessel was bound from Boulogne to the Iceland fishing grounds, and had a crew of thirty hands...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
DUNMORE, EAST, Co. WATERFORD.—It having been reported that a large steamer in distress was anchored off Slade, co. Wexford, during a whole gale from the S.8.W. and a very heavy sea, the Life-boat Henry Dodd was promptly launched at 12,15 P.M...
Category: Services