LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Here and There
A YACHT RACE which never finished because there was not enough wind has brought five krugerrands, with a value of over £1,000, for the RNLI. Peter de Savary, chairman of the British syndicate entering the yacht Victory in the 1983...
Category: Articles
Dusty Miller
ABERSOCH.—On the 10th October, a telegram was received from Barmouth, stating that a vessel was in distress, riding at anchor dangerously near to St. Patrick's Causeway, and that it was impossible for the Barmouth Life-boat to go to her...
The Life-Boat Saturday Fund
SINCE the issue of the Parliamentary Report last July, which stated that the charges of mismanagement brought against the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION with regard to the Life-boat Saturday Fund were " entirely without...
Category: Articles
Shaheen
Dover, Kent. — About 5.30 on the afternoon of the 12th of August, 1956, a yacht was seen from the eastern arm of the dock, apparently in difficulties off the Forelands. 'The life-boat Southern Africa put out at...
The S.S. Empire Tigaven and The S.S. Cormoat (1)
DECEMBER 13TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, AND FILEY, YORKSHIRE. During a northwesterly gale, with a very rough sea, the S.S.
Empire Tigaven and the S.S. Cormoat came into collision about four miles off Flamborough.
A...
Premuda (1)
JANUARY 16TH. - MARGATE, RAMSGATE.
AND WALMER. KENT. At 9.30 P.M. a message was received at Margate from the Margate coastguard that an Italian steamer was sinking close to the North Goodwin Light-vessel. A strong N.E. wind...
(Below) David John Nelson Son of Assistant Mechanic John Buckland of Eastbourne Lifeboat and His Wife Joan and Horn on Trafalgar Day 1977 Was Christened By F
(Below) David John Nelson, son of Assistant Mechanic John Buckland of Eastbourne lifeboat and his wife Joan, and horn on Trafalgar Day 1977, was christened by Father Roy Cotton using the ship's bell of the former HMS Eastbourne as font.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Yulan
It is not often that loss of life has to be recorded in con- nection with shipwrecks on the Good- win Sands, so well organised is the Life- boat service in the neighbourhood, but unfortunately the loss of the ketch Yulan, of Harwich, during...
Services of Life-Boats
NEWCASTLE, DUNDRUM BAY.—On the 12th December, 1858, the French lugger Louise Amelie got embayed and was driven on shore near Newcastle in a heavy gale from S.S.E.- The life-boat belonging to the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, stationed at...
Category: Services
Two Yachts
A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...