LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services
CREW TRAPPED AND INJURED BY PIER SUPPORT Atlantic damaged while saving girls trapped in heavy surf under pier For the first time in the history of the RNLI the three-man crew of an Atlantic class lifeboat have been awarded a Silver and two...
Category: Services
The Founding of the Institution. The Report of the First Meeting
THE Institution was founded at a meeting held in the City of London Tavern on 4th March, 1824, with the Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Manners Sutton), in the chair. The twelve resolutions which called the Institution into being and laid down...
Category: Meetings
Four Months of Gales. 174 Launches; 194 Lives Rescued.
THE past winter has been remarkable for a succession of terrible westerly gales. In their frequency and intensity they have been unequalled during the present century. October opened with gales on eight successive days, from the 1st to the...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats In December, 1951, January and February, 1952. 76 Lives Rescued
DURING December, 1951, life-boats went out on service 35 times and rescued 15 lives.
ENGINE BROKEN DOWN Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 3.7 in the morning of the 5th of December, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a woman had...
Category: Services
Stromness: First Lifeboat Station In Orkney By Joan Davies
TAKE THE FERRY from Scrabster Harbour to Stromness. Cross the Pentland Firth from the north coast of Caithness to Mainland, Orkney, and already there is a growing feeling of vast distance, of wide horizons. A majestic, ponderous swell rolls...
Category: Articles
News and Views
SEA Check under way The RNLI's Sea Safety team has been helping to educate sea users of all kinds since the initiative was first launched some four years ago, but it is now breaking new ground with its SEA Check scheme.
Category: Articles
The Fundraisers
In brief A GENEROUS donation of £500 has been received from JAVA (the Jaguar. Alacrity, Vivacity Association) which is affiliated to the Royal Yachting Association.
AFTER Fort William and District branch invited the...
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
Inaugural Ceremonies, England
H.R.H. The Prince George, K.G., at Newhaven. H.R.H. The Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood, at Scarborough and Bridling ton.
EIGHTEEN Inaugural Ceremonies of new Motor Life-boats have been held during the five months...
Category: Inaugurations
Lifeboat Services
VERY LITTLE SEAROOM AND FUEL OIL ON THE DECKS Two services in eight days to factory ships - 40 men saved The joint second coxswain of the Lerwick lifeboat, William Clark, has achieved the rare distinction of being awarded the RNLI's...
Category: Services