LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
La Mer
Thick fog VISIBILITY WAS DOWN to a few yards when, at 2210 on Wednesday, June 16, Salcombe's 47' Watson lifeboat The Baltic Exchange slipped her moorings in thick fog to begin a search, with the aid of her radar, for a 19' cabin...
Royal Summer
'THE PLEASURE of your company' is a phrase so often used that we rarely listen to the words themselves; but when members of the royal family honour the lifeboat service with their company everyone knows the days will not only be...
Category: Inaugurations
David Case Hon Sec at Wells In Norfolk Makes Up His Log During An Emergency An Example of the Detail to Be Found In His Painstaking Record Can Be Seen on P
David Case Hon Sec at Wells In Norfolk Makes Up His Log During An Emergency An Example of the Detail To Be Found In His Painstaking Record Can Be Seen On P. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Motor Launch (1)
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 1.10 in the afternoon -of the 16th of May, 1948, information was received that a vessel was on the Brake Sands and at 1.28 the motor life-boat Prudential left her moorings. A moderate north-easterly gale was...
The Ketches F. H. Bolt and Anne, and Crabbers St. Eloi, Susanne Yvonne, etc
ON the 29th July the St. Ives Life-boat performed a series of arduous services, going out five times to the rescue of no fewer than ten vessels, and saving forty men, in the course of seven hours.
On the 28th July a strong...
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When three people’s lives were in danger, off-duty lifeguards knew what to do
At 6pm on 16 August 2011, three lifeguards finishing their day at Porthcothan, Cornwall, advised everyone to leave...
Category: Articles
Books for Spring
For the young adventurer
School Ship Tobermory by Alexander McCall Smith Twins Ben and Fee MacTavish, who are nearly 13, are all set to join the school ship Tobermory, where youngsters from all over the world learn to...
Category: Articles
Contents
THE LIFE-BOAT (Est. 1852) All editorial material submitted for consideration with a view to publication in the Journal should be addressed to The Editor, THE LIFE-BOAT, 42 Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.1 (Tel. 01-730 0031). Photographs...
Category: Contents
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
CADGWITH, CORNWALL.—At midnight, on the 13th January, 1868, a light being observed on or near the Vrogue Rocks, in a strong wind from the W.S.W., and a heavy ground sea, the Western Commercial Traveller life-boat was despatched to as-...
Category: Services
Dawn Wind
Selsey, Sussex. At 8.49 on the even- ing of the llth of June, 1960, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in distress one mile south-by-west of Selsey Bill. At 8.57 the life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched, two...