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A Sailing Dinghy

Date: Winter 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 499

Swamped A 15FT SAILING DINGHY with three people on board had set off for a day's fishing off Flamborough Head on the morning of Sunday September 21,1986. On their return the dinghy capsized just off Smethwick Sands. The crew succeeded in...

Harriet

Date: August 1892

Volume: 15

Issue: 165

MILFORD.—A vessel having been reported to be in a dangerous position on a lee-shore close to St. Ann's Head, while a moderate gale was blowing from the S.E., on the 16th January, the reserve Life-boat placed here while the station's...

Mr R Lain Maclean,

Date: Spring 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 540

Mr R lain MacLean, chairman of Stornoway station branch. Mr MacLean was chairman since 1981 and received a silver badge in 1992. He was formerly coxswain of Stornoway lifeboat from 1972 until 1979..

Category: Obituaries

Life-Boat v. Submarines

Date: November 1918

Volume: 23

Issue: 266

THE story of the services rendered by the Life-boats in direct connexion with the war cannot be told until the end of the war. When it is unfolded it will be seen that the Institution has carried out, both in the letter and in the spirit,...

Category: Articles

The Walmer Life-Boat

Date: August 1878

Volume: 10

Issue: 109

HARK ! a distant gun is sounding .

O'er the waters, wildly bounding; Raging waves are fast surrounding Some wrecked ship to-night On the shore the breakers, roaring, Loud as thunder now are pouring; Far a signal high...

Category: Poetry

Ocean Packet No. 3

Date: November 1877

Volume: 10

Issue: 106

NEWCASTLE, DUNDRUM BAY.—On the 17th April, at 9 A.M., the brigantine Ocean Packet No. 3, of Harlingen, was obliged by strong wind and heavy sea following on an easterly storm, to run .from her anchorage off St. John's Point and drive...

Mrs D. J. Wilkes

Date: Autumn 1988

Volume: 51

Issue: 506

Mrs D. J. Wilkes of Llandudno, a keen and dedicated supporter of the lifeboat service for many years, she was appointed an honorary life governor in 1964..

Category: Obituaries

(Main Picture) Cromer

Date: Winter 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 547

/Main Picture) Cromer was one of the pier-end slipway lifeboat stations built in the middle years, making use of reinforced concrete and steel.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The S.S. Crestville

Date: September 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 377

Port Erin, and Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—About 5.35 on the afternoon of the 27th of May, 1956, a man informed the coxswain that he had seen from Cradder Head a steamer aground on the Calf of Man. At 5.55 the life-boat Matthew Simpson was...

(Right) Was Aboard When

Date: Autumn 1981

Volume: 48

Issue: 478

(right) was aboard when the lifeboat launched down her slipway. - View image in PDF

photographs by courtesy of (above) Jeff Morris and (right) Walter Gardiner. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs