LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
THE fishwives of Cullercoats this year collected £139 at the quarterly road exercise and launch of the life-boat.
This was the fourteenth annual col- lection and the total for the fourteen years is...
Category: Articles
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1888
Jan. 5.—Voted 21. 1 Os. to 15 ve men for rescuing, by means of lines from the shore, the crew of four men from the schooner Anne Knox, of Glasgow, which had dragged her anchors and stranded on the bench, at Douglas, Isle of Man, during; a...
Category: Articles
High Seas
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
St Bees - North Division St Bees lifeboat station is just to the south of St Bees South Head, and faces to the west, towards the Isle of Man.
The shallow...
Category: Articles
Your Letters
Thanks to Alderney...
The RNLI has always been our favourite charity. During a Channel crossing on 19 June in our 29ft yacht we had good reason to be grateful for the support we and countless others have given the...
Category: Correspondence
Working Away...
'Oh, we'll be there from about eight, see you when you arrive' said the cheerful voice on the other end of the phone. As I put the handset down I reflected on the distance some of those 'we's would have to travel to be at...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Lexicon
Sea users have a language all of their own, and when you add the terms brought in by new technology and the demands of a specialised operation such as the lifeboat service the potential for confusion can be enormous! In The Lifeboat we try...
Category: Articles
Other IRB Launches
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded on fages 88, 91, 93, the following launches on service were made during the months December, 1967, to February, 1968, inclusive: Abersoch,...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution—continued
BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.— The Worcester Cadet Life-boat was launched at 8.20 P.M. on the 3rd January, 1884, signal guns of distress having been heard in the direction of the " Atherfield Ledge" rocks during a thick fog and...
Category: Services
None (9)
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. — 2nd December, 1937. A trawler reported that she had investigated distress signals off Kinnaird Head without finding anything, and a further search by the life-boat was also without result.—Rewards, £16...
William Milburn,
William Milburn, coxswain/mechanic of Sunderland lifeboat from 1974 to 1982. He was the station mechanic from 1950 to 1971 and then served as 2nd coxswain/mechanic until his appointment as coxswain / mechanic in 1974..
Category: Obituaries