LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gilded Age
QUEENSTOWN.—Ofl the 27th October, at about 10.15 A.M., a telegram was received from the Coastguard Station, at Eobert's Cove, stating that a yacht was in distress off Cork Head. The Quiver Life-boat was promptly launched, and proceeded,...
Our Financial Position
IN our Annual Report published in May last special attention was drawn to the fact that during the year 1890 the Committee had been compelled to spend as much as 33,354?. 13s. 10d in excess of their ordinary income, and that they had been...
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Presidential Visit
HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the RNLI, is pictured talking to (from left to right) crew member John Gorman, and Helmsmen Geraint Wheeler, Tom Ridgway, Sandro James and Cliff Bates all of Aberystwyth during a two day tour of Cardigan... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
After Coxswain! Mechanic Frank
After Coxswain! Mechanic Frank Ide of Poole lifeboat had made the draw for the RNLI's twenty-first national lottery. Cub Scout Iain Winslade, from Tolpuddle, presented to him a cheque for £40. With them is Rear Admiral W. J. Graham,... - View image in PDF
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Stephen Iredale
Stephen Iredale Staithes and Runswick helmsman Stephen Iredale has been awarded the Walter and Elizabeth Groombridge Award for the rescue of a lone sailor from the trimaran SIS (Spring 2001 issue, p. 10). The annual award is presented for... - View image in PDF
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A Yacht (1)
OLD LIFE-BOAT WEATHERED STORM Lytham St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 2.45 p.m. on nth July, 1965, a two masted yacht was seen off the Wall End buoy, apparently receiving a heavy battering from the seas. There was a west-by-south wind of near...
Hebe
COUKTSIACSHERRY, Co. CORK.—The Lifeboat City of Dublin put off at 3.30 P.M. on the 23rd January during a gale of wind from the W., signals of distress having been shown by the schooner Hebe, of Cork, bound from Newport to Bantry with a cargo...
Bookshelf
Uphill all the Way by Alan Sears published by Adlard Coles Nautical at £14.99 ISBN 0-7136-4876-7 Completing a 30,000-mile race round the world and against the prevailing winds must bring a great feeling of personal satisfaction to those...
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Kithnos
Sick seaman saved THE 18,000 TON GREEK tanker Kithnos was heading north of the Humber light vessel at 0418 on January 15,1987 when one of her crew was reported to be suffering from a severe nosebleed, requiring medical...
Martlet
It may have been a fairly straightforward service but there were some interesting sidelines. In the words of Captain Cowell, the station's honorary secretary at Douglas in the Isle of Man: 'At 1055 on Sunday 1 June the lifeboat,...