LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
As the Young See Us
The image of the RNLI affects almost every aspect of its operation. Without a high profile in the public eye the task of the fundraisers is made more difficult.
Concepts form at an early age, and the way youngsters perceive...
Category: Articles
Guiding Hand
At 1233 on Tuesday November 18, a mayday was received by Dover Coastguard from the trawler Guiding Hand, on fire six miles north east of Ramsgate.
Her four crew were fighting the fire. A helicopter was scrambled from RAF...
The New Launching Tractor
By Captain Howard F. I. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life boats.
LAST year the Institution completed the first of a new type of tractor for launching Life-boats off flat beaches. It was built as the result of...
Category: Inaugurations
30 Months of War.
In the first thirty months of war Life-boats have rescued 4636 lives. They have rescued more lives in thirty months of war than in the last thirteen yearu of peace. They are rescuing nearly two lives for every life rescued in the last trar,...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
WITH this number we greet a new readership. This consists of members of the newly formed Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association to be known as the Y.L.A. The new Association was formally brought into being by Sir Alec Rose at...
Category: Articles
Oneida
On the 3rd August a S.S.W. gale was blowing, ac- companied by a heavy ground sea, and about 11.20 a telephone message was received stating that a fishing boat was outside, and unable to make the harbour. A look-out was kept, and when, some...
A Motor Cruiser
Motor cruiser stranded ON THE AFTERNOON OF Sunday August 11, 1985, Mr Anthony Wylie, the watchman of the east pierhead at Ramsgate, was following the progress of a 16ft motor cruiser. She was approaching the harbour from the south, having...
No. 1305
MOTOR LAUNCH ON THE SCROBY SANDS Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—Shortly after three in the morning of the 10th of June, 1947, the coast- guard reported flares, and the motor life-boat Louise Stephens was...
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DEC. 25TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. Flares had been reported, but nothing could be found.
- Rewards, £19 16s. 6d..
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MAY 1ST. - CROMARTY. At 7.40 A.M. a message was received from the Cromarty coastguard that two airmen had been seen in the sea off Brora, and at 8.20 A.M. the motor life-boat James Macfee was launched.
A light easterly...