LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rangor
BY BREECHES BUOY Lerwick, Shetlands. At 1.4 a.m. on iyth January, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that they had fired a warning rocket and that a fishing vessel which had gone near the Ness of Sound had stopped and burnt a...
Gypsy King
Walmer, Kent. At 10.30 on the morning of the 13th of January, 1958, the Deal coastguard told the coxswain that a motor boat had broken down with engine trouble a quarter of a mile south of South Brake buoy. The life- boat Charles Dibdin...
A Small Boat (2)
MAY 1ST. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.
At 5.30 in the afternoon the Dock Board reported a small boat, with two boys on board, off C.6 Red Buoy, in the Mersey, rapidly drifting out to sea. The No. 2 motor life-boat Edmund and...
Review
Poor man’s heaven by Seth Lakeman Review by Rory Stamp
Seth Lakeman isn’t alone in being a successful modern musician inspired by classic rock and 1990s dance music, but few fuse such influences in the way he has on Poor...
Category: Articles
Old And New Generation Lifeboats, Boathouses – And Crew
21st century stations The RNLI’s Shoreworks team is continuing to update lifeboat stations around the UK and RoI, thanks to your support.
In Hoylake, Merseyside, a £2M appeal has been launched to raise funds for a new...
Category: Articles
Salvage Payments to Life-Boats' Crews
SALVAGE PAYMENTS TO LIFEBOATS' CREWS.
As it often happens that the life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION are the means of saving vessels and their cargoes from destruction, or of materially contributing...
Category: Articles
Capt. R. L. Hamer, D.S.O., R.N.
CAPTAIN RICHARD LLOYD HAMER, D.S.O., R.N., who died on the 16th of December, 1951, at the age of 67, was for twenty years in the service of the Institution. When he came to it in 1925, he had served for many years, before and during the war...
Category: Obituaries
Jacob Rauers
The barque Jacob Rauers, of Gothenburg, whilst bound from that port to Grangemouth with a cargo of spars and pit-props, stranded on the rocks near the " Needle Eye," at Marshall Meadows, on the 29th...
County Associations (Continued from Page 12)
In continuation of the description of the Anglesea Life-boat stations, we have now to give an account of Rhoscolyn, Penmon, Llanddwyn, aud Moelfre. Before doing so, however, we have to correct a mistake as to the Holyhead boat, which, in...
Category: Articles
Mayflower
On the afternoon of the 25th of November the Dover, Kent, life-boat, while taking part in a television pro- gramme, took in tow the local motor boat Mayflower. Details of the service are given on page 382.—Rewards to the crew, £8...