LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bohemian Girl and Prefect
Stromness, Orkney.—At 11.80 P.M. On the 2nd July the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that the Wick wireless station had received news of a trawler ashore on North Ronaldshay. There was a thick fog at the time, with a moderate S.E. wind and...
Maritime Exhibition:
Maritime exhibition: the loan exhibition, Rule Britannia, at Sotheby's ran for the whole of January, was visited by thousands of people and raised over £10,000 for the RNLI.
It included items from over 150... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
To Rescue Drowning Persons
WE are gratified in being able to make public the following instructions for the guidance of those who being themselves able to swim, may have opportunity to go to the aid of their drowning fellow creatures.
The writer of...
Category: Correspondence
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Stuck in mud A MAN stuck in the mud at the mouth of the River Taff was reported to Swansea Coastguard by Cardiff Police at 2322 on Sunday August 24, 1980. Three men had been in a boat that sank. Two had managed to reach shore, but the third...
The Royal Bank of Scotland
Carry the card that helps save lives at sea No fee in first calendar year* Save up to £60 when you transfer a balance from another card** £5 donation tO RNLI when your account is opened - contribute to RNLI every time you use your...
Category: Advertisement
Drifting in the dark
Two 13-year-olds found themselves drifting out to sea in the dark on the evening of 7 September.
Wearing only Summer clothes, they thought they had secured their inflatable dinghy close to the shore near Hove but later...
Category: Articles
May
Launches 26 Lives rescued 25 The War ended on the last minute of the 8th of May
MAY 9TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. A dinghy attached to a naval motor launch was seen by the life-boat coxswain to capsize off Fishcombe Point,...
Category: Services
Fast Lady
Fast first for Brighton's new Atlantic 21 Brighton - South East Division Brighton's new Atlantic 21 Graham Hillier and Tony Cater found herself on service very promptly after arriving at the station on 21 July.
The...
A Vessel (21)
JUNE 13TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET. A small vessel was on fire, but she had burnt to the water's edge. As she might continue to burn in the darkness, or become a danger to navigation, she was sunk by the life-boat.- Rewards, £18 10s..<...
The Life-Boat Regulations
THE following Eegulations are intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew, and...
Category: Articles