LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Annual Meeting
The annual meeting was held in London on October 18th, and the seven life-boatmen who have won medals for gallantry since the end of the war were present. Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, presided and read a message from...
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Shannon prototype trials
Trials of the prototype of the Shannon class lifeboat are continuing – and RNLI crews and officials like what they see. RNLI Skegness tweeted: ‘When I say “we like it”, we really like it! Have never heard the word “phenomenal” used so...
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Guardsman
NOVEMBER 15TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
Early in the afternoon the crew had assembled at the boathouse during an air raid alert. The weather was clear, the sea smooth. and a southerly wind was blowing.
A tug was...
Magna, of Helsingborg
OCTOBER 19TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 5.25 in the morning the Deal coastguard telephoned that the East Goodwin Lightvessel had reported a vessel ashore on the Sands. An easterly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Charles...
The S.S. Empire Kinsman, of Sunderland
DECEMBER 13TH. - WALMER, KENT.
About 8.40 in the morning a message was received that a steamer was aground off Walmer Castle. A light north-north-west breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth, but there was a thick fog....
The Refrigerated Cargo Vessel Green Lily
Heroism and tragedy as ship goes ashore in 50ft breakerswith a 3,000-ton cargo vessel just yards off a rockstrewn coastline, and being driven inexorably ashore by breaking seas almost 50ft high, the crew of the Lerwick lifeboat had just one...
Lifeboat Services (1)
Aberdeen, Grampian 54ft Arun ON 1050: Aug 1 Relief D class: Sept 8 D class: Oct22 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: Aug 2, 3, 10 and 12 (twice) Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: Aug 4,12, 23, 25 and 27 Aith, Shetland 52ft Arun ON 1100: Aug 13,...
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October
Launches 32. Lives rescued 31.
OCTOBER 8TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. At 12.30 P.M. the Tara coastguard reported that the motor boat Dawn, of Glasgow, engaged on salvage work, was showing signals of distress at the...
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Obituaries
With deep regret we record the following deaths: MARCH 1988: Mrs Marjorie Lambert, committee member and patron of Birmingham Branch from 1985 to 1988. She had previously been vice chairman of the Edgbaston and Harborne Ladies' Guild...
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The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-bonse ready for immediate...
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