LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Naming Ceremonies
The new Troon life-boat, James and Barbara Aitken, was named by Her Grace Mary, Duchess of Montrose, an honorary life governor of the Institution and president of the Isle of Arran branch, on the 9th of July, 1955. The cost of this life-boat...
Category: Inaugurations
Our Financial Position
IN our Annual Report published in May last special attention was drawn to the fact that during the year 1890 the Committee had been compelled to spend as much as 33,354?. 13s. 10d in excess of their ordinary income, and that they had been...
Category: Articles
The United States Amphibious Force L.C.I. 493, 498, 502, and 506
FEBRUARY 19TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.
At 4.47 in the afternoon the resident naval officer telephoned through the coastguard that landing craft belonging to the United States Amphibious Force were ashore on Paignton beach, between...
Seven Men Rescued from Trawler Aground
FOUR minutes after midnight on I3th December, 1963, the coxswain of the Caister life-boat, J. R. Plummer, learnt from the Gorleston coastguard that a vessel appeared to be in trouble two miles from the North Denes look- out. Coxswain Plummer...
Category: Services
Blue Tango
Yacht aground HEARING, just after 1700 on Sunday September 13, 1981. that a yacht had grounded on the training bank off Buoy C6. Helmsman Edward Brown telephoned the honorary secretary of New Brighton lifeboat station. Almost immediately, as...
£120 from Exmoor Shepherds
THE honorary secretary of the Minehead branch writes: "You may be interested to know that a friend of mine—the licensee of a small hotel in a remote spot on Exmoor—assisted by local shepherds, last September organised some sheep- dog...
Category: Donations
Home Base
Lifeboats less then 10 metres long (C and D class inflatables and 21 ft Atlantic rigid inflatables) now carry out more than 55 per cent of all the RNLI's service calls, and with more than 135 boats of these classes now on station, and a...
Category: Articles
Lamorna
Swanage, Dorset, and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 11.25 in the morning of the 4th of November, 1951, the Niton Radio Station reported a wire- less message from a steamer that a schooner was in distress sixteen and a half miles...
War on the water
On a windless Spring day off Ireland’s south coast, a magnificent steamship carrying almost 2,000 people was hit by a torpedo. It was a tragedy that would be felt around the world
The passenger...
Category: Articles
Sea Mist
Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 5.33 p.m.
on igth August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht half a mile east of the harbour entrance had run aground and had fired distress signals. The...