LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SIDMOUTH, DEVON. — This Life-boat Station has been provided with a new 34 feet 10-oared Life-boat, possessing all the latest improvements and furnished with a transporting carriage. The expense of the change was met by a gift of...
Category: Articles
Letters
Welcome! Between the crew of Cromer lifeboat station and our station Ijmuiden a friendship has flourished for some years. This culminated in a visit of our lifeboat Johanna Louisa to Cromer from May 8 until May 11.
The...
Category: Correspondence
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
GREAT YARMOUTH. — The small surf Life-boat on this station, the Duff, went off on the 16th January, 1871, to the brig Flora, of Poole, which had parted her anchors and gone on the beach during a strong gale from the South. Proceeding through...
Category: Services
The Storms of Winter. The Return of the Missing Crew
( With an Illustration.") " THERE'S two ends to every trouble, Mary; there's the end that goes downward and drags us to the earth, and there's the end that goes upwards and draws us to...
Category: Articles
Meeting Place
The RNLI's 1998 Annual Meetings For the fourth year running, the RNLI's Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards, held on 21 May, took place at the Barbican Centre in the City of London.
Displays were set...
Category: Meetings
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FRASERBURGH, N.B.—About 9.30 P.M. on the 30th July last, the tug-boat Ex- pert arrived in this harbour with the infor- mation that she had passed a schooner at anchor on the lee side of the bay, in dis- tress from leakage, and in expectation...
Category: Services
Swallow
Walmer, Kent.—At 1.15 on the after- noon of the 14th of December, 1956, the Deal coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Swallow needed help in the Downs. At 1.30 the life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) was launched. There was...
A Sailing Dinghy (9)
Walmer, Kent. On 8th August, 1964, members of the life-boat crew saw a sailing dinghy capsize a mile north-northeast of the life-boathouse. The two members of the dinghy's crew were unable to right the boat as her mainsail appeared to be...
A Sailing Dinghy (2)
Whitstable, Kent. At 11.32 a.m. on 6th November, 1965, a member of the public told the honorary secretary that a small sailing dinghy had capsized half a mile to a mile off shore, and that after the two people aboard her had managed to right...
Bluebell and Ebenezer
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. At 7.42 p.m. on 27th November, 1965, the honorary secretary was told that the fishing boat Bluebell had been towing another fishing boat the Ebenezer (which had no lights) when the tow rope...