LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Lottery
The winter 2005 Lifeboat Lottery raised almost £750,000 for the RNLI - thank you! Once again, the quarterly Lifeboat Lottery has broken all records, bringing 2005's total Lottery income to an extraordinary...
Category: Articles
The Tender Pendonna
Humber, Yorkshire. At 2.47 on the morning of the 1st of November, 1960, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that red flares had been seen near the Bull lightvessel. A strong east-south-easterly wind was blowing, and the sea...
Visit of the Prince of Wales to Newquay, Cornwall
FOE the second time within two years Newquay has been fortunate enough to receive a Royal visit, and has thus been the means of illustrating the deep interest taken by our kingly Patron in the national service which it is the privilege of...
Category: Articles
Life-Lines
BONNIE little Life-boat! Going out to seat What a splendid picture, Wherever she may be! Valiant little Life-boat! We know the signal well; Of vessels in distress, As rings the Life-boat bell.
Useful little Life-boat I...
Category: Poetry
Enterprise
SPEED BOAT TOWED At 5.3 p.m. on 6th June, 1964, the coastguard told the mechanic that a speedboat had been seen about to strike the rocks off Hoe bathing pool. At 5.18 the life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse left in a near...
Prosperity
ON THE SANDS Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. At 11.16 a.m. on yth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police had reported a 6o-foot motor fishing vessel ashore on sands north of Rattray Head. At 11.33 ^ life-boat...
Her Royal Highness the Princess Anne
Her Royal Highness The Princess Anne speaks to members of Southend-on-Sea's Atlantic 21 crew (from left to right, John Foster, David Goodbourn and Paul Henshaw), watched by station honorary secretary Colin Sedgewick (extreme right).... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
St.Brendan Dressed Overall for Her Naming
St Brendan dressed overall for her naming. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Denis O'Connor. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gudveig of Oslo (1)
Caister, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk; and Lowestoft, Suf- folk. At 4.59 on the morning of the 24th of February, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Gorleston station that the motor vessel Gudveig of Oslo...