LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

DECEMBER 17TH. - WALMER, KENT.

The naval officer-in-charge, Ramsgate, asked that a doctor should be taken to the American steamer James E. Haviland. A strong southwest wind was blowing and the sea was very rough. The motor...

The naming ceremony of the Arun class Duke ofAthollal Dundee on 12 May was memorable in many ways. Named in honour of The Duke of Atholl who had been the Institution's chairman for a decade up to 1989 she is also the last Arun class... - View image in PDF

Above: The wrecked Anzio off the Lincolnshire coast in 1966. Top right: The lifeboat cottages at Spurn Head are to be replaced.. - View image in PDF

BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.

—At 3'40 A.M. on the 2nd April, the barque Cedarine, of Bermuda, stranded near Brighstone Grange, with 234 persons on board, 191 of whom were convicts, whose period of punishment at...

THE EXPERIENCES of a number of lifeboats in the severe gales last winter led to the appointment in February, 1978 of a working party to examine what more could be done to reduce the dangers facing lifeboat crews in extreme conditions....

OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION (The figure* refer to the number* of the Hfe-boatt detailed on the twelve preceding Pages.") A. F. H., 134.

A Lad;, 16.

A Lady, per Manchester Branch,...

Scarborough, Yorkshire - At 12.5 p.m. on I5th June, 1967, a small boat with two men on board was reported in difficulties in South bay. The life-boat J. G.

Graves of Sheffield was launched at 12.15 in a slight north...

The New Wells Irb and Boathouse Pictured Are Coxswain David Cox (Left) of Wells Lifeboat and Crew Member A Warner. - View image in PDF