LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mind the gap
As waves hurled themselves at the narrow harbour entrance, two lifeboat crews needed to combine their skills to get a yacht to safety
A gale force 8 was lashing Newlyn Harbour as Coxswain Patch...
Category: Articles
Looking at Lifeboats - the Tyne Class
Keith Thatcher, RNLI Naval Architect, continues a series of profiles of lifeboat classes Many people's image of a lifeboat launch is of a boat plummeting down a slipway into rough seas, disappearing into a cloud of spray at the foot of...
Category: Articles
Letters
THANKS TO 'WONDERFUL PEOPLE' While on holiday in the Isle of Man in September we visited the Life-boat station at Port Erin. We read the boat's record with great interest, and the members on duty tending the boat were welcoming,...
Category: Correspondence
The East German M.V. Kathe Niederkirchner
THICK FOG Longhope, Orkneys. At 6.35 a.m. on 23rd August, 1965, a cargo vessel was reported ashore on the west side of Muckle Skerry. There were light northerly airs with a slight sea. A thick fog reduced visibility to about thirty yards. It...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
YARMOUTH, NORFOLK.—At 1 A.M. on the 18th March the Coastguard reported that a large Government cruiser was signalling to the shore for immediate assistance. The crew of the Life-boat were promptly assembled, and in a choppy sea the Life-boat...
Category: Services
People and Places
Stirling Whorlow QBE Stirling Whorlow QBE, the secretary of the Institution for eight years from 1961 to 1969 died at his home in Spain on 2 October 1988.
One of his colleagues from the RNLI at the time writes: 'It is...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Friday, 27th August, 1937.
PAID £13,874 lls. 7d. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, in- cluding rewards for services, payments for the construction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways,...
Category: Committee
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Category: Advertisement
Sirena II
Swanage, Dorset - At 10.38 a.m. on 5th June, 1966, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had been dismasted and was firing flares two miles south east of St. Alban's Head. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 10.46 in a...
Your Letters
Address your letters to: The Editor, The Lifeboat, RNLI, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ or email us at: [email protected] All submissions should be clearly marked 'for publication' In reply to the letter from GM Reid...
Category: Correspondence