LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Birthday Celebrations
The vast majority of supporters and readers of The Lifeboat will know by now that the RNLI celebrated its 175th anniversary on 4 March.
Each one of the 223 lifeboat stations in the UK and Republic of Ireland raised a...
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'We were in trouble ...'
When car ferry Princess Victoria sank in heavy seas off Northern Ireland on 31 January 1953, Billy McAllister was working onboard
Massive waves were pushing and hitting, sending her [Princess...
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FLOUR POWER!
Feast your eyes on a batch of tasty RNLI treats celebrating 150 years of support from the Communications and Public Service Lifeboat Fund
Every slice of these spectacular RNLI-flavoured cakes is benefiting The Lifeboat...
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Nancy
Drifting trawler THE RAMSGATE TRAWLER Nancy reported to Ramsgate Harbour Radio on the evening of Monday January 30, 1984, that warps and nets had fouled her propeller. Her position was one and ahalf miles east south east of North Foreland...
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Cut off by tide INFORMATION THAT A MAN had been reported cut off by the tide below the cliffs in the vicinity of the Coastguard lookout was passed to the honorary secretary of Whitby lifeboat station at 1630 on Sunday, June 5. The assembly...
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1858
Is accordance with our custom for some years past, we present some facts connected with the Wreck Register and Chart, prepared annually by the Board of Trade for presentation to Parliament.
It is, as usual, a...
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Past and Present
100 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, May 1890 issue THE LIFE-BELT USED BY THE CREWS OF THE LIFE-BOATS OF THE NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are:- 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy...
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M.F.V. Dumnonia
PORTPATRICK, January 8, 1988: with her propeller fouled by her fishing gear, MFV Dumnonia was drifting on to a lee shore, four miles away in a force 8 gale and in darkness. Portpatrick's 48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat Douglas Carrie...
Louise
JAN. 7TH - CLACTON-ON-SEA. AND WALTON AND FRINTON ESSEX. At about 4.38 P.M. the Clacton coastguard telephoned that a barge off Holland Sluice appeared to be in difficulties. Soon afterwards they reported that she was burning flares for help,...
Gleaner
CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—On the 12th November the schooner Gleaner, of Preston, was driven on shore in Castletown Bay, in an easterly gale. The Lifeboat Commercial Traveller No. 2 was speedily launched, and succeeded in rescuing her crew of...