LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Suction Dredger Porteur
The motor Life-boat Charterhouse was called out during a whole N.N.W. gale and very heavy sea on the 21st October, to the assistance of the suction-dredger Porteur, of London, which had been at anchor in Fishguai'd Harbour, but was cast...
F.E. 88
Dover, Kent. At 5.25 on the evening of the 13th of November, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a local fishing boat was mis- sing off Folkestone. When the life-boat Southern Africa put out at 6.3 it was low water....
Epimachus, of Amsterdam
On the 18th De- cember, the Dutch galliot EpimacTws, of Amsterdam, was seen to be running for the shore, with a flag of distress up, 4 miles north of Berwick-on-Tweed. The life-boat at that place was at once launched, and pro- ceeding to her...
The Three-Masted Motor Schooner Agnes Craig
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.— During the morning of the llth June, 1938, the three-masted motor schooner Agnes Craig, of Dublin, ran aground on the N.W. side of Blackwater Bank, about fourteen miles from Rosslare Harbour.
The S.S. Crestville (1)
Port Erin, and Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—About 5.35 on the afternoon of the 27th of May, 1956, a man informed the coxswain that he had seen from Cradder Head a steamer aground on the Calf of Man. At 5.55 the life-boat Matthew Simpson was...
Do Whales Get the Bends?
Do Whales Get the Bends?
by Tony Rice
Review by Lucie Grisdale
Tony Rice is a former marine biologist who now spends his time lecturing about his experiences and knowledge of the ocean on...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches. 1st November, 1936 to 31st January, 1937
Greater London.
BARNEHURST.—Mrs. Pickering ap- pointed honorary secretary.
BEDDINGTON, WALLINGTON AND CARSHALTON.—Lantern lecture to the Women's Citizens Association by the dis- trict organising...
Category: Branches
The S.S. Louisiana
At 5.45 on the morning of the 2nd June the Coastguard at Blyth received informa- tion, by telephone that a steamer was ashore on the rocky beach at Seaton Sluice, about four miles to the south of Blyth Harbour. The message was at once passed...
Padstow Lifeboathouse at Trevose Head on the North Coast of Cornwall
Padstow lifeboathouse, at Trevose Head on the north coast of Cornwall, is at the foot of steep cliffs. On Sunday September 18, 1983, a new lift up these cliffs was formally opened by Captain P. K. C. Harris, HM Coastguard regional controller... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Voluntary Spirit
Fortunately the age old advice 'never, ever volunteer' is as widely disregarded today as it was in Sir William Hillary's time. Richard Mann, the RNLI's Regions Manager, looks at some of the ways that the Institution is...
Category: Articles