LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Small Boat
Dover, Kent.—At 11.10 in the morn- ing of the 7th of August, 1948, the dockyard police reported that a small boat had capsized in the bay, and ten minutes later the motor life-boat J. B.
Proudfoot was launched. The sea was...
Arosa
Twelve Spanish fishermen lost their lives when their trawler sank in appalling weather off the west coast of Ireland. Just one man, 24-year-old Ricardo Garcia, was saved after the Welsh-registered Arosa hit rocks on 3 October last year..<...
Mr. Norman Clark Neill
Mr. Norman Clark Neill, who died in March, at the age of fifty-two, was appointed a member of the committee of management in November, 1933, and served on the boat committee and construction committee. He brought to the work of the...
Category: Obituaries
On March 20 Aith the Rnlvsmost Northerly Station Branch Held Its Annual Lifeboat Memorial Service Instigated By the Rev Magnus Cheyne Following the Loss of Lon
On March 20 Aith, the RNLVsmost northerly station branch, held its annual Lifeboat Memorial Service, instigated by the Rev.
Magnus Cheyne following the loss of Longhope Lifeboat. (I. to r.) Kenneth Henry, coxswain Aith... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
United States Life-Saving Service
AT the close of the fiscal year ended the 30th June, 1901, the Life-saving Estab- lishment of the United States embraced 270 stations, an increase of 1 as com- pared with the previous year. Of this total (270) 195 were situated on the...
Category: Articles
Twenty-Six Children Aged Between Eight and 12 Years from Schools In Kuwait Raised £820 Half for Swanage Lifeboat and Half for Rnli Funds With a Sponsored Team Swim the Children Are All M
Twenty-six children, aged between eight and 12 years, from schools in Kuwait raised £820, half for Swanage lifeboat and half for RNLI funds, with a sponsored team swim. The children are all members of a swimming club run by Mr D. J.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fail Safe Part Ii: Upright Again - and Then What? By James Paffett Rcnc Ceng Frina Honfni Frsa Chairman of the Technical Consultative Committee
IN THE FIRST PART of this article, published in the spring issue of THE LIFEBOAT, we recalled the righting after capsize on service of four of the Institution's lifeboats and looked at the designer's work which had made possible the...
Category: Articles
May
Launches 41 Lives rescued 27
MAY 1ST. - NEWCASTLE, CLOUGHEY, AND DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. In the darkness of the early morning the American steamer Georgetown Victory, of Baltimore, ran ashore at Killard Point, Co. Down,...
Category: Services
Life-Boat Day at Filey
Launching the Life-boat on 9th August with the sons of H.R.H. Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood, on board.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rnli News
Hammering away...
The RNLI's appeal for autographed items which can be auctioned to raise funds has already attracted an enthusiastic response.
Several hundred autographs have been received at...
Category: Articles