LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
All Hands to the Pumps
On the night of 22 June 1988 the fishing vessel Marigold tan on to rocks at Polkirt beach, 500 yards from Mevagissey Harbour and was badly holed. An overnight operation by a local boatbuilder, the coastguards and fire brigade patched the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Trent
Length 14.26m (46ft 9in) Beam 4.9m (16ft 1in) Displacement 27.5 tonnes Speed 25 knots Range 250 n. miles Crew 6 Construction Fibre Reinforced Composite (FRC). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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
Nine People Rescued from Dutch Motor Vessel
A FINE service carried out in an easterly gale resulted in the rescue of all nine people on board a Dutch motor vessel. For this service Coxswain Walter Jonas Oxley, of Walton and Frinton, was awarded the bronze second service clasp for...
Category: Services
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
EASTBOURNE.—THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a new and additional Life-boat station at Eastbourne in order to strengthen the Life- boat service on that coast, the Local Committee unanimously approving of the formation of...
Category: Articles
The Hastings Motor Mechanic Has a Day Off
The Hastings Motor Mechanic Has A Day Off. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, July 2nd, 1867. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Around the Coast—And Inland
THE PRESENTATION of a cheque for more than £50,000 by the Lord Mayor of Cardiff to the Duke of Atholl, chairman of the Institution, was reported in the summer issue of THE LIFEBOAT. It was the amount raised up till that time by the...
Category: Articles
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Red flag rescue The red flag was flying, there were constant loudspeaker announcements, and safety signs alerted people to the dangers. Despite these warnings, people were still in the waterSwimmers near Bournemouth pier were in danger of...
In Fog Off Chesil Beach
ON the evening of the 2nd of Apfil a strong south-westerly wind was blowing at Weymouth. The sea was rough; there was a heavy driving rain; there were dense banks of fog. At a quarter past six the coastguard telephoned to the honorary...
Category: Services