LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Canoe
ALL-NIGHT SEARCH FOR DRIFTING CANOE Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 7.50 on the evening of the 2nd June, 1963, the Fleetwood coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man and an eleven-year-old girl in a canoe had drifted out of sight off...
A Former Staithes and Runswick Atlantic 21
A former Staithes and Runswick Atlantic 21 lifeboat pictured on exercise near the west breakwater, which can be seen in the background. At the time of the Vellumwinning service it was almost submerged by breaking... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
In This Issue.
News and views The latest news from and about the RNLI Lifeboat services Life at the sharp end including two Bronze Medal rescues 8 Porthcawl to Fishguard 16 Howard Richings continues his look at lifeboat stations around the coast Kings of...
Category: Contents
Below: the Duke of Atholl a Vice President of the RNLI and Convener Scottish Life-Boat Council Presenting a Certificate of Service to Mr Evan Owens at the Boat Sho
Below: The Duke of Atholl.a vice president of the R.N.L.I. and Convener, Scottish Life-boat Council, presenting a certificate of service to Mr. Evan Owens at the Boat Show.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Enfant de Bretagne
Trawler taking water A FRENCH TRAWLER, Enfant de Bretagne, broadcast a Mayday call on the afternoon of Tuesday, December 2, 1975, saying that she was taking water in heavy weather in position 320°M 18 miles from St Ives Head. This...
Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 2nd April, 1857. His Grace the PRESIDENT in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.
Read...
Category: Committee
Mrs. Polly Donkin
MRS. POLLY DONKIN, the most widely known of the fisherwives of Cullercoats who for nearly thirty years have col- lected for the Life-boat Service at the summer exercise of the Cullercoats life- boat, died on the 26th of March after a long...
Category: Obituaries
The S.S. Dryburgh
Nov. 11TH. - THE HUMBER, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. At 6.49 A.M..
a message was received at the Humber lifeboat station from the Spurn Head Royal Naval Shore Signal Station that a vessel one and a half miles south-west...
A Rowing Boat
THREE MEN LANDED FROM ROWING BOAT Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 21st October, 1962, news was received that a man in a canoe had left Llandudno at 9.15 that morning and had not returned. A fresh south-east wind...
A helping hand for flood rescue
A hardware firm that has put firm support behind the RNLI’s Flood Rescue Team (FRT) is on course to raise £80,000 this year.
Toolstation is the FRT’s sponsor, and staff have been boosting funding for the team’s...
Category: Articles