LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Depaky II, of Santiago
Margate, Kent - At 9.10 a.m. on 9th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that a yacht was aground on Margate Sands. The IRB was launched at 9.20 in a light south westerly breeze and a smooth sea. It was low water. When...
St.Mary's Isles of Scilly
ST MARY'S, ISI.KS OK sciu.v, Saturday July 26, 1986: the crew of the 52ft Arun class relief lifeboat Duchess of Kent, on temporary duty at St Mary's, assembled, ready to launch, after Falmouth Coastguard telephoned to say that a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Boats
NOV. 23RD. - MARGATE, KENT. At 9.55 A.M. a message was received from the Ramsgate coastguard asking that the lifeboat should bc launched, go to the North Foreland, and stop all shipping as it was a dangerous area. A fresh S.S.W. wind was...
Prudence
AUGUST 12TH. - MARGATE, KENT At 5.50 P.M. during an air-raid the police telephoned the life-boat coxswain that a man had come down in the sea by parachute two miles off Epple Bay. A S.W. breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. The motor...
The American Sailing Yacht, Seafarer
AUGUST 7TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 9.12 at night the Ramsgate coastguard reported a sailing yacht aground on the Goodwin Sands. A light west-south-west breeze was blowing and the sea was calm.
At 9.20 the motor life-boat...
The Self-Righting Principle In Life-Boats
Ls December 1849 one of the South Shields life-boats upset alongside a wrecked vessel on the Herd Sand, on which occasion 20 out of 24 men who formed the crew of the boat, perished. This melancholy accident, which in one moment prematurely...
Category: Articles
Your Letters
Coxswain's Thank-you Having been persuaded to be involved in the RNLI Christmas Appeal letter, I was overwhelmed with the amazing response - which resulted in donations totalling £400,000.
Several hundred...
Category: Correspondence
A Lifeboat Village at Earls Court
'WELCOME TO THE BOAT SHOW! we are particularly pleased that in this our 21st anniversary year we are featuring the Royal National Life-boat Institution which is, in turn, celebrating its own 150th year.' Thus, on New Year's Day,...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
Creyv board boat face danger and tragedy inside cave on Atlantic coast The crew of the Arun stationed at Ballyglass on the exposed north west coast of Ireland faced unusual dangers last October when the lifeboat and her Y-Boat were involved...
Category: Services
Other IRB Launches
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded on fages 88, 91, 93, the following launches on service were made during the months December, 1967, to February, 1968, inclusive: Abersoch,...
Category: Services