LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Four Drifters
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 8.39 on the evening of the 7th of October, 1952, the Gorleston coastguard telephoned that a drifter was firing red rockets about a mile east-south-east of the coastguard station, and at 8.52 the life...
A Boat
Station Name: Lifeboat: Date of Launch: Cause of Service: Weather: Visibility: Wind: Sea state: Swell: Tenby RFA Sir Galahad 26 June 1994 Vessel lost her rudder Rain Moderate South west Force 5 to 6 Rough Two metresI was told by the station...
Royal Commission on the Mercantile Marine
WE publish the following synopsis of the instructions given to the Royal Commission now inquiring into the condition of the Mercantile Marine of the United Kingdom, the same being given under Her Majesty's sign manual:— VICTORIA E. * * *...
Category: Articles
Coxswain/Mechanic David Chant of St.Davids
Coxswain/Mechanic David Chant of St Davids became a shore helper and assistant winch man in 1962 before joining the crew in 1984. He was appointed coxswain/mechanic in 1988.
David was awarded a bronze medal this year in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Annual Meeting of the French Life-Boat Service
AT the invitation of La Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufrages, the Hon.
George Colville, Deputy Chairman of the Committee of Management, attended the Society's Annual Meeting, which was held in Paris on Sunday...
Category: Meetings
Cover Picture
by Richard Price The first Trent class to go on service, 14-01 Earl and Countess Mountbatten of Burma, pictured during her crew training course shortly before leaving for her station. She is exercising a high wire stretcher transfer with a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The inauguration of the Queen Victoria new Life-boat on this station, a description of which was given in the last number of The Life-boat Journal (pp. 528-9), took place on the 23rd August in the presence of a...
Category: Articles
A German Aircraft
Whitby No 1, and Runswick, York- shire.—18th October, 1939. The coastguard reported a vessel firing signals six miles north of Whitby. A moderate N.E. wind was blowing with a choppy sea. At 7.45 P.M. the motor life-boat was launched. The...
A German Aircraft (1)
Whitby No 1, and Runswick, York- shire.—18th October, 1939. The coastguard reported a vessel firing signals six miles north of Whitby. A moderate N.E. wind was blowing with a choppy sea. At 7.45 P.M. the motor life-boat was launched. The...
Crossing the Bar In a Hurricane
AT 2.20 on the afternoon of the 13th of November, 1959, the coastguard at Hartland Point informed the honorary secretary of the Appledore life-boat station, Captain P. Brennan, that the Polish vessel Gliwice was in distress ten miles west-by...
Category: Services