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The Sailing Boat Crackerjack

Date: December 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 390

Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 1.57 on the afternoon of the 12th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the assistant honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized six hundred yards off shore in Lydstep haven. At 2.1 the life-boat Henry Comber...

The Wreck of the Bolivar

Date: October 1947

Volume: 32

Issue: 343

(See pagt 51). - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Portrait on the Cover

Date: June 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 404

THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Hubert Petit, of St. Peter Port, Guernsey, who is only the third man to win the Institution's highest award for gallantry, its gold medal, since the war. An account of the service for which he...

Category: Articles

The Sailing Barge Astrild

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

MAY 2ND. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 2.40 in the morning a message was received from Southend coastguard that a vessel was burning flares and firing rockets three miles east of Southend pier. A strong easterly breeze was blowing, and...

Blessing the Fishing Fleet

Date: October 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 351

In the harbour at Whitby. The service was conducted by the Bishop of Whitby, and his pulpit was draped with the house flag of the Institution.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Portrait on the Cover

Date: December 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 406

THE cover picture on this quarter's journal is of Coxswain Richard Muir of Seaham. He was appointed on the 21st November, 1962, four days after the life-boat disaster in which the previous coxswain, J. T. Miller, lost his life while on...

Category: Articles

Pulled from the river

Date: Winter 2014

Volume: 61

Issue: 610 Lifeboat Magazine Winter 2014

TOWER | 14 OCTOBER
A woman believed to be suffering from epilepsy was rescued from the River Thames by Tower lifeboat crew. Passengers aboard a nearby boat directed the crew members to the woman. She...

Category: Articles

The Helwick Lightvessel

Date: June 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 396

Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 10.40 on the morning of the 16th of March, 1961, the Trinity House depot informed the honorary secretary that a doctor was needed on board the Helwick lightvessel.

The weather was fair. There was no...

Above: the Pilot's View

Date: Summer 2002

Volume: 58

Issue: 561

Above: The pilot's view as he approaches his target. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Italin Brig Sori

Date: November 1871

Volume: 08

Issue: 82

Earlier in the year, on the 7th January, the Kingsdowne and North Deal Life- boats had also been enabled to render somewhat similar service to the Italian brig Sori, except that in this instance the vessel, laden with linseed, was found on...