LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Yarmouth's Arun Class Lifeboat Joy and John Wade
Yarmouth's Arun class lifeboat Jo and John Wade is pictured during a service to the Maltese-registered Ro-Ro vessel/4/A M'tff e/-/during the severe storms which swept the country on 28/29 October 1989. The photograph may not be of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
North of England and Isle of Man Community News
Morecombe
Fantastic 5p fundraising
When 8-year-old Keegan Luraschi learned that RNLI lifeboat crew members are volunteers who count on public donations to save lives, he set his mind to doing all he...
Category: Articles
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy (maximum 28 Ibs., minimum 25 Ibs.) to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support...
Category: Articles
A Spanish Steamer and The S.S. Pena Cabarga
On the evening of the 5th September, a Spanish steamer, when entering Blyth, collided with the s.s. Pena Cabarga, of Saiitancler, which was outward bound with a cargo of iron ore. The latter vessel nevertheless proceeded, but after getting a...
Maragret Coldwell. Coriven
During a strong gale from the N.W., on the 11th November, the schooner Margaret Caldwell, of Port- rush, was at anchor in the Skerries Roads, when the barque Convert, of Londonderry, running for the same anchorage, got foul of her, and...
Fish Carrier Khartoum
During foggy but smooth weather on the 6th June, information was received that a trawler had run ashore on the Bell Buoy Shoal, Scroby Sands. The crew of the Mark Lane were promptly assembled and the boat, in tow of a tug, proceeded to the...
Boy Reggie
At 2.40 P.M.
on 18th December the Coastguard reported that the motor fishing boat Boy Reggie, of Lowestoft, was in dis- tress near the Holm Sands. A moderate S. W. breeze was blowing with a moderate sea, and as the crew...
A Fishing Boat
Barrow, Lancashire. At 3.35 on the afternoon of the 25th of June, 1960, the coastguard told the coxswain that the tanker Kellia had reported that there was a small fishing boat alongside her with one man on board who had broken an arm...
The Rev. The Earl of Devon and Commander Sir Harry Mainwaring, Bt., R.N.V.R.
THE committee of management deeply regret the loss of two of their col- leagues, The Rev. the Earl of Devon and Commander Sir Harry Mainwaring, Bt., R.N.V.R.
The Earl of Devon, who died suddenly on 8th February, at the age...
Category: Obituaries
Testerossa
A busy month for St Ives On 21 May 2006, relief Mersey class Royal Shipwright attended the 21m Testerossa, 27 miles north west of St Ives in near-galeforce winds. Sennen Cove's Tyne class Norman Salvesen joined in to achieve 5 knotsto St...