LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Cullercoats Motor Life-Boat
APRIL 22ND. - TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
The Cullercoats motor lifeboat had capsized on exercise, but the Tynemouth life-boat was unable to find any of her crew, six of whom were lost.-Rewards, £9 3s. (A full account...
From the Royal Bank of Scotland's Credit Card Centre
From the Royal Bank of Scotland's Credit Card Centre, Ray March, Ray Essen, Gerry Furner, John Brown and Sandy Matthew present the cheque to the RNLI's Tom Cocking (second left), Peter Holness (third left) and Barbara Trousdell... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—The NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat Establishment at this new and rising watering-place on the coast of Essex— the local residents being very desirous to AND NEW LIFE-BOATS.
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Category: Articles
Dinner to the Ramsgate Life-Boat Men
(From Pullen's Kent Argus, 1st Dec., 1888.) THE triennial dinner to Ramsgate Lifeboat men, the expenses of which are defrayed by the interest of 200Z. left by the late Admiral Sir George Back, F.B.S., took place on the 29th November, at...
Category: Articles
Past and Present
35 years ago The report of the 1959 AGM in the June 1959 issue of THE LIFEBOAT makes an interesting comparison with that of its successor 35 years later, the costs may be missing several zeros compared with today's figures but threeand-...
Category: Articles
Your Letters
Pass them on...
The letters regarding 'passing on' THE LIFEBOAT interested me as I too have done this for a number of years, taking the journal to our local doctors' surgery and, more recently, sending them on a...
Category: Correspondence
Past and Present
25 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, June 1965 issue SIX NEW STEEL LIFEBOATS After intensive trials extending over nearly a year the Institution has decided, in principle, to build six 44- foot steel life-boats. They will be to the...
Category: Articles
November (1)
PORTMAGEE, Co. KERRY. On the morning of the 13th of June, 1944, the 35-feet motor fishing boat Naomh Moibhi, of Dingle, was at anchor at Portmagee, sheltering from the weather. A west-north-west gale was blowing, with high seas. The Valentia...
Category: Services
Letters
Welcome home Your autumn issue of the journal will, I am sure, give full coverage of the AGM in May and subsequent medal and award presentations, and 1 should like to follow that up by telling you of the wonderful night we all had on the...
Category: Correspondence
Midley Belle (1)
Rising winds RYE AUXILIARY COASTGUARD requested the launch of Rye Harbour lifeboat at 1350 on Saturday October 3 following reports that the 24ft ketch Midley Belle was heading out to sea. It was a squally afternoon with moderate confused...