LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Auxiliary Fishing Boat C.A.5
New Quay,Cardiganshire.—At 1.55 on the afternoon of the 18th of August, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a boat was reported in difficulties be- tween five and six miles north-east of New Quay. There was a shirt flying from her mast-head...
A Life-Boat Diary
"Ship" Ha'pennies for Life-boats A LARGE tin containing a thousand ha'pennies, all with the "ship" design on one side, has been given by Mr.
Henry Broom and his daughter Betty, of Bedford,...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat
ONE night in Autumn, lately past, remembered by a chilly blast, That swept o'er all the country wide, While sitting at the warm fireside, I mused on all the trials sore, Of Mariners around our shore; As day by day, the papers tell,...
Category: Poetry
Fria
On the afternoon of the 25th March the schooner Fria, of Thisted, was observed at anchor in a disabled condition two miles from Drogheda Bar. A strong easterly gale was blowing, and the Lifeboat's crew found it impossible to force the...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution
(Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.) ITS OBJECT AND WORK.
The work of the Institution mainly consists of—- 1. Building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways,...
Category: Advertisement
Joan and Mary, Dorothy Rose, and Matthew and Edward
NOVEMBER 4TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
The local fishing cobles Joan and Mary, Dorothy Rose, and Matthew and Edward had gone out in bad weather, and by 11.45 A.M.
it had got so much worse, with a fresh N.E....
Life-Boatman and Coastguard In Support
The new coat oi arms of Ramsgate, where the life-boat station has rescued 1,365 lives'since 1865. - View image in PDF
(Reproduced by courtesy of the Borough of Ramsgate.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Maryport
MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND On the 9th October, 1940, the Maryport life-boat rescued the crew of four of the herring drifter Mourne Lass, of Workington.
COXSWAIN THOMAS Q. REAY was awarded a clasp to his bronze medal..
Category: Medals
Pica
The RNLI's Rescue Survey - where people who have been rescued are given the opportunity to comment on the circumstances - is producing useful information both for the lifeboat service and for passing on as part of the Sea Safety...