LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Obituaries
Obituaries Coxswain Colin Harrison, of the Runswick, Yorkshire, life-boat, was drowned in June when his coble capsized.
His son Colin, aged 12, was, however, found unconscious in the sea but revived.
The...
Category: Obituaries
The 900-Ton Coaster Woodlark Aground on Rocks at Morte Point Woolacombe Devon on 13Th December 1967 and (Below) the Appledore Life-Boat Towing the Vessel
The 900-ton coaster Woodlark aground on rocks at Morte Point, Woolacombe, Devon, on 13th December, 1967, and (below) the Appledore life-boat towing the vessel clear.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures Provisional figures show that in 1986 lifeboats launched 3,150 times and saved 1,260 lives.
In 1985 lifeboats launched 3,899 times (an average of nearly 11 times a day) and saved 1,747 lives (an average of...
Category: Articles
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Category: Articles
Portrait on the Cover
THE photograph on the cover is of Coxswain Frederick Palmer of Wey- mouth, who first joined the Weymouth crew in 1926. Since then Weymouth life-boats have been launched on service 240 times and have rescued 180 lives.
He...
Category: Articles
Kommander Svend Foyn
RAMSGATE.—At 3.45 P.M. on 29th November, in answer to signals from the North Goodwin Light-vessel, the Life-boat Bradford was towed out of the harbour by the steam-tug Aid. A strong N.W.
gale was blowing at the time,...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
WALMER, KENT.—On the 1st October, during hazy weather, the barquentine Juno, of Riga, stranded on the South Goodwin Sands, whilst bound from Portsmouth to Sunderland. Informa- tion reached the Coxswain of the Life- boat about 9 A.M., and...
Category: Services
Rye Harbour: the Remains of the Tiger Moth Whose Crew of Two Were Rescued By Rye's D Class Inflatable Lifeboat on August 27 (See Right) Photograph By Courtesy of Mary Lestocq
Rye Harbour: The remains of the Tiger Moth whose crew of two were rescued by Rye's D class inflatable lifeboat on August 27 (see right). photograph by courtesy of Mary Lestocq. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Management of Boats In a Surf and Broken Water
THE management of a boat in the dangerous circumstances of a heavy sea and broken water, is altogether so practical a thing, that it may be thought no rules or instructions can be given which would be of much value to those called on to put...
Category: Articles
On 5Th May, 1943, the Wells Life-Boat Took Part In An Interesting Service In Which the R.A.F. for the First Time Dropped An Airborne Life-Boat to a 'Ditched' Bomber Crew Off the East Anglian Coast. Th
On 5th May, 1943, the Wells life-boat took part in an interesting service in which the R.A.F. for the first time dropped an airborne life-boat to a 'ditched' bomber crew off the East Anglian coast. The 'ditched' crew received... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs