LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Long Search on the Goodwin Sands
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 153 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to June 30th, 1952 77,747 A Long Search on the Goodwin Sands AT 10.53 on the night of the 13th...
Category: Services
The Flamborough Motor Fishing Coble Pioneer (1)
NOVEMBER 12TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. At 5.30 at night it was reported that the Flamborough motor fishing coble Pioneer, which had been due back at three o’clock, had not returned.
A strong...
The following information is published as received: 'The Eastney, Hampshire, lifeboat —the last .tailing and pulling boat on station with the RNLI—photographed on return from a service
The fill/owing information is published as received: 'The Eastney, Hampshire, lifeboat —the last .tailing and pulling boat on station with the RNLI—photographed on return from a service in which it towed in the three Royal Nary inshore... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Back to the drawing board
Last Autumn’s issue of the Lifeboat introduced the RNLI’s experimental lifeboat FCB2. It is hoped this will evolve into the next generation of carriage-launched all-weather lifeboat, replacing the Mersey class. Unfortunately, the hull shape...
Category: Articles
The Danish Motor Vessel Axel
FEBRUARY 12TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 12.25 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that rockets had been seen two miles S.E. by E. A strong E.N.E. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. It was snowing...
A Vessel
Other Launches on the Night of the 28th.
On the opposite side of Anglesey to Moelfre and Beaumaris. the two Holyhead Life-boats were also out for the greater part of the night, the Steam Life-boat being launched twice, the...
A Long Search on the Aberdeen Coast. Coxswain's Silver Medal and Second-Service Clasp In One Year
AT nine in the evening of 4th Novem- ber, 1937, many people in the village of Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, heard the sound of a ship's siren, and thought that it must come from a ship dangerously close to the shore. A southerly gale was...
Category: Services
The Sand Boats David P. and Harfat
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At 3.5 in the morning of the 15th of January, 1952, a resident of Newport telephoned that a sand boat had been driven ashore off Newport, and at 3.30 the life- boat Mono, was launched. A westerly gale was blowing,...
H.R.H. Princess Margaret Met Mr. J. Tofton, Who Is Now the Chief Rigger at the Depot, at the RNLI Stand at the International Boat Show
H.R.H. Princess Margaret met Mr. J. Tofton, who is now the chief rigger at the Depot, at the RNLI stand at the International Boat Show. The Princess was escorted by the Secretary of the Institution, Mr. Stirling Whorlow.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Royal Life-Boat Matinee
THE second annual Life-boat Matinee at the Lyceum Theatre, organised by the Central London Women's Committee of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, was held on the llth December, and realised £992 after all expenses had been...
Category: Articles