LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dee Jay
Dungeness, Kent. At 8 p.m. on I2th August, 1965, a speed boat was reported in distress off Dungeness Point with her engine broken down. The life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched on the flooding tide at 8.53 in a moderate...
Bay Monarch
Cruiser foundered ON THE NIGHT of Saturday June 21, 1980, the motor cruiser Bay Monarch with four people on board ran aground on rocks and sank south of Swordale on the Eye Peninsula, Isle of Lewis.
The four survivors...
New Directions to Restore the Apparently Drowned
1. Treat the patient instantly, on the spot, in the open air—exposing the face and chest to the breeze, except in severe weather.
To CLEAR THE THROAT— 2. Place the patient gently face downwards, with one wrist under the...
Category: Articles
The Bulgarian Motor Vessel Vassil Levsky
SICK MAN TAKEN OFF BULGARIAN SHIP Newhaven, Sussex. At 11.30 on the morning of the 17th May, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Bulgarian motor vessel Vassil Levsky of Varna had a sick man on board who needed a...
Right: RNLI Ream Members With Compares Nell, Frank and Lucy.
Right: RNLI ream members with compares Nell, Frank and Lucy.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Suffolk Firm Building Faster Boats for the Rnli
When in the mid-1960s the RNLI decided to have six fast steel lifeboats to a 44-foot design developed by the United States Coast Guard, the Lowestoft shipyard was chosen to build them—and two of the six went to East Anglian stations, the...
Category: Articles
Inside the D Class
D class lifeboat Aerial Gecko Marine Safety Helmet (complete) Lifejacket Typhoon Dry Suit 40hp Mariner Engine with Tool Kit Self Drainer (Port and Starboard) This poster has been part sponsored by AV*N Manufacturer of the RNLI's D...
Category: Articles
Princess Alexandra Meets the Margate Lifeboat Crew In the Company of the Chairman Michael Vernon.
Princess Alexandra meets the Margate lifeboat crew in the company of the Chairman Michael Vernon. A proud day for all concerned - especially as the Princess had been prevented from naming the Margate lifeboat on a previous occasion planned... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1868
THE RIGHT HON. H. T. L. CORRY, M.P., First Lord of the Admiralty, in the Chair.
1.—Moved by the Chairman :— 1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the Officers of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITOTION for the...
Category: Meetings
Elizabeth, of Droghead
On the 14th November the brigantine Elizabeth, of Drogheda, when off St. Bee's Head, during a gale of wind and in a very high sea, lost her mainmast, foretopmast, &e., and hoisted a signal of distress, where- upon the Elizabeth...