LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sea Urchin and Rosalie
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 4.45 on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1956, just after the life-boat Herbert Leigh had towed in the fishing boat Rosalie, the coxswain, who was on pilotage duty in Barrow docks, noticed that another fishing boat...
Georgina and Northern Star
COBLES IN DANGER Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 1.43 p.m. on I3th January, 1965, the coxswain telephoned the honorary secretary that two local fishing cobles were at sea, and as a sudden gale had sprung up from the south-south-east and the...
Silver Coquet and Provider
COBLES ESCORTED At 10.3 a.m. on i6th November, 1965, the cobles Provider and Silver Coquet were reported to be still at sea in conditions that were rapidly deteriorating. The lifeboat Millie Walton set out at 10.40 in a south-easterly gale...
R.N.L.I. and R.A.F. Link
A plaque presented to the Appledore life-boat station by R.A.F. Chivenor, Devon, has led to a reciprocal presentation by the life-boat station. The plaques record the close co-operation between the two establishments on sea survival...
Category: Awards
People and Places
Lottery Draw The winning tickets for the 63rd national lottery were drawn at RNLI headquarters on Sunday 31 October 1993 by Peter Jones, chairman of the Civil Service Motoring Association and Colin Frizzell, chairman of Frizzell Financial...
Category: Articles
Then and Now:
Then and now: The lifeboat house at Dun Laoghaire in the days of oar (above) and of outboard motors (right). In 1938 the boathouse ceased to be used by the RNLI and today's 44ft Waveney class lifeboat lies afloat in the harbour.
Category: Articles
Ina and Johnstones
Nov. 3RD. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 10 A..M. a message was received from the Blyth coastguard that two local fishing boats, Ina and Johnstones, were at sea.
A S.E. gale was blowing, with a choppy sea.<...
Success and Provider
FEBRUARY 28TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
The fishing fleet was out and all the boats had returned by 1 P.M. with the exception of two, Success and Provider. A strong E.N.E. wind was blowing, with seas breaking three-quarters of...
Crewhill and Osage
DECEMBER 18TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 4.20 P.M. the steamer Crewhill, of Belfast, was seen to be approaching and to be signalling for the life-boat, and at 4.30 P.M. the motor life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched. A...