LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ina
Tyn_e tows coaster and crew to safety in worsening weather When the 210ft coaster Ina lost power off the Devon coast on 4 November 1997 she soon found herself aground by the stern on the Mewstone, just off Bolt Head. With a south-easterly...
(Above) Thames:
(above) Thames: length overall 50ft; beam 14ft 6in; draught 4ft 6in; displacement 27 tons; maximum speed, 18 knots; range at full speed, 200 nautical miles. The Thames, introduced in 1973, has a crew of six, she lies afloat. Her hull is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To EDWIN W. DISTIN, on his retirement, after serving for 29| years as coxswain of the Salcombe life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service and an annuity.
The late GEORGE S. KELLY, who for 15 years was coxswain and 6...
Category: Awards
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To WILLIAM GRIMES, on his retirement, after serving for 16 years as coxswain of the Wells life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service, and a pension.
To ROLAND HAYTER, on his retirement, after serving for 14f years...
Category: Awards
The Passenger Vessel Purbeck Gem
Two lifeboats help in evacuation of 114 from stranded passenger vesselBoth of Poole's lifeboats were called on to help with the evacuation of 114 passengers from a passenger vessel which ran aground in darkness and thick fog on the night...
Courage and loss
When a well-known Scarborough man ended up in the dark surf last Winter, the community did everything they could to help him -and his memory- live on
In the early evening of Sunday 22 February,...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
ABERSOCH, CAERNARVONSHIRE. — While the wind was blowing, with the force of a whole gale to a storm, from W.N.W. to N.W., with terrific squalls and a very heavy sea, on the 12th Jan. last, signals of distress were exhibited by the schooner...
Category: Services
Above: Poster By Peter Williams Aged 6 of Rugeley Staffs (7 Years and Under); Left: Poster
Above: Poster by Peter Williams, aged 6, of Rugeley, Staffs. (7 years and under); left: Poster by Simon Turner, aged 11, of Horley, Surrey (11 years and over)..
Category: Drawings
K. Ktistakis
At 9.35 A.M. on the 25th March the coastguard telephoned that a steamer was ashore on the Good- wins, two miles W.S.W. of East Goodwin light-vessel. The motor life- boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) was launched at 9.50 A.M. and...