LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire. — In the early hours of the 2nd of November, 1956, the motor fishing vessel Lend Us, of Whitby, put out to go to the fishing grounds. By midday the weather had deteriorated, and as the fishing boat was due to return to...
A Winter Gale
By the REV. THOMAS GUTHRIE, D.D.
THE gale of the 3rd of December last was a destructive hurricane. It would appear, from observations made at Liverpool, that its utmost severity fell on that town and its neighbourhood ;...
Category: Articles
A Sunday Exercise During the Passage Involves the Mersey Taking Salcombe's Tyne Class the Baltic Exchange Ii In Tow
A Sunday exercise during the passage involves the Mersey taking Salcombe's Tyne class. The Baltic Exchange II. in tow. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Carthagena
At about 1 P.M. on the 19th November guns were heard in the direction of the Cross Sand. The wind was blowing a moderate breeze from the W.S.W., the sea was moderate and the weather was very thick. A yawl put off and sailed to the sand where...
Brownies Were By Far the Greatest Moneyspinners In the Guide Friendship Fund Lifeboat Project: 1St.Woodseaves Brownies Sent In £33 After a Sponsored Skip — to Reac
Brownies were by far the greatest moneyspinners in the Guide Friendship Fund lifeboat project: 1st Woodseaves Brownies sent in £33 after a sponsored skip — to reach their target, each of 24 girls had to make 50... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rnli News
Royal visitor to the depot and headquarters HRH The Princess Royal visited the RNLI during a brief visit to Poole on 30 November 1989.
Despite a very tight schedule, which meant she could only spend some 45 minutes with the...
Category: Articles
Special Gifts
From a Cripple's Home.
THE Tiny Tims Cripples Home at Eastbourne Las sent to the Eastbourne Branch a gift of 11s. 9d., made up of the children's own farthings. This is the second time that the Tiny Tims have given...
Category: Donations
For More Than 40 Years Two Generations of Two Families
For more than 40 years two generations of two families have been raising funds for the RNL1 at the Cramond Inn on the south shore of the Firth of Forth. The two families, the Gumleys (owners of the inn) and the Proudfoots (the managers),... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Paul Boyton (1)
RAMSGATE AND NORTH DEAL.—On the 20th September, at about 12.30 A.M., the ship Paul Boyton, of Yarmouth, N.S., 1097 tons, bound from Baltimore to Hamburg with a cargo of maize, went ashore on the Goodwin Sands during a fresh wind from the W....
Coxswain Neil Wick (1940-70) Stewart Jnr
Coxswain Neil Wick (1940-70) Stewart Jnr. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs