LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Cobles
On the 30th November, whilst four of the fishing cobles were at sea, the wind increased and the sea became very heavy. When the boats were returning it was seen that they were in imminent danger off Newbiggin Point, and the Life-boat Ada...
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE Thirty-third Annual Meeting of this excellent Society was held at the Cannon Street Hotel, on the 15th May last. In the absence of the President, His Grace the DUKE OF MABLBOROUGH, the Chair was taken by Admiral the Hon. ARTHUR...
Category: Meetings
Elephant
The tubular life-boat was likewise the means of rendering good service to another shipwrecked crew on the 19th October.
During the previous night a very severe gale had swept over Liverpool and its neigh- bourhood, and...
Port Isaac August 8 1987:
PORT ISAAC, August 8, 1987: two anglers, cut off by the tide when they clambered to remote rocks north of Hole Beach are picked up by Port Isaac's 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat, earlier alerted by Hartland Coastguards. The alarm was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. South Coaster
DECEMBER 2lST. - EXMOUTH, DEVON.
At 8.15 in the morning of the 13th of December, the S.S. South Coaster, of Cardiff, ran aground on the eastern end of Pole Sands, west-by-south three-quarters of a mile from Orcombe Point....
Grave Omission:
Grave omission: when he died in 1904 Henry Freeman, coxswain of Whitby lifeboat who had helped save over 300 lives was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave. Four boys from Whitby School considered it was high lime the town honoured one... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wales Community News
Words: Anna Burn. Photos: Nicholas Leach, RNLI/(Penarth, Porthdinllaen, Norma Stockford, Vicky Walmsley-Williams, Charlie Williams)
Welcome to your community news for Wales. For all the latest from where you are, head to...
Category: Articles
Memories of International Conferences By Patrick Howarth
The first international lifeboat conference was held in London in 1924, the centenary year of the RNLI; the first international lifeboat exhibition is being held at Plymouth this summer to celebrate our 150th...
Category: Articles
Pupils at Fowey Community School Put Their Backs to the Wheels and Trundled a D Class Inflatable Lifeboat 74 Times Round Their School Bus Park
Pupils at Fowey Community School put their backs to the wheels and trundled a D class inflatable lifeboat 74 times round their school bus park. Photo Jonathan Barker. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Spurs, of Grimsby
JANUARY 20TH and 21ST. - ABERDEEN, ABERDEEN NORTH PIER LIFE-SAVING APPARATUS, AND ABERDEEN TORRY LIFE-SAVING APPARATUS. At 7.30 in the evening the steam trawler Spurs, of Grimsby, on her way to the fishing grounds, but trying to get into...