LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Boy Arthur
At 6.15 P.M.
on the 4th October, it was reported to the Coxswain of the No. 1 Life-boat Alfred Carry, that a small boat was driving south in front of the town with two persons on board. As a fresh easterly wind was blowing...
Management of Boats In a Surf and Broken Water. Second Article
IN our last Number we published some remarks on the management of boats in a surf and broken water, embodying the substance of inquiries made on various parts of the coasts of the United Kingdom, together with our own comments on the same...
Category: Articles
Feature Better Beaches, Safer Seas
The RNLI's Beach Rescue pilot scheme has been running all summer on selected beaches in the south west of England. As the time approaches when a full evaluation of the pilot will be made, Jane Smythson visited one of the pilot projects...
Category: Articles
Ard Carna
Overdue THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND motor fishing vessel Ard Carna put out from Greencastle, Lough Foyle, on Thursday April 28 to fish white fish. She had a crew of five and was expected back on the Friday or Saturday. At 2200 on Saturday April...
Heritage Publications
144 pages Many of the most stirring tales of 'the men who never turn back'— the crews of the R.N.L.I.—are included from the very beginning of the service to today. So, too, are the stories of rescue and heroics by others including...
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Thoughts on the Art of Street Collecting By Clive Porter Second Coxswain Teesmouth Life-Boat
THERE is an art in most things, and carrying a collecting tin for the R.N.L.I.
can be of great interest. Nothing could be more absorbing than spending a day in the street persuading the public that our cause is worth...
Category: Articles
Das Wappen von Bremen (1)
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the 2nd June, 1938, the crew of seven of the German yacht Das Wappen von Bremen, were rescued by the life-boat.—Rewards: Vellum and monetary awards amounting to £20 10*. 2d., together with a letter to the Board...
Prince of Wales' Day In London
PRINCE OF WALES' DAY throughout Greater London was held on 8th May, and the chief feature of the day, and a great factor in the success of the appeal, was the personal visits which the Prince of Wales paid to depots in the East and South...
Category: Articles
Books
• The early years of the Dungeness lifeboat station were ones of uncertainty.
The station opened in 1826, just two years after the RNLI was founded, and in the next 48 years was closed twice and moved up and down the coast...
Category: Articles
Isabella
On the 24th March the barquentine Isabella, of Swansea, coal - laden, from Sunderland for Southampton, ran into Yarmouth Eoads for shelter in a severe gale from W.S.W. and a very heavy sea, Her two anchors were let go but both chains parted,...