LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ann, of Inverness
The schooner Ann, of Inverness, was approaching the Har- bour of Arbroath, on the evening of the 24th August, it then being an hour past high-water, and the wind blowing a strong gale from the S.W., when she struck on the rocks, about 400...
Some Ways of Raising Money
Redcar branch ladies guild's income for 1976 exceeded £4,000, all raised the hard way. None of the members has a car, so that large suitcases have to be heaved on and off buses in support of their various fund-raising efforts. In...
Category: Donations
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—Continued
GREAT YARMOUTH AND CAISTER. — On the 24th September, 1871, while it •was blowing strongly from the S.E., and a heavy sea was running, a vessel at anchor on a lee shore, near Caister, ex- hibited signals of distress. The No. 1 Life-boat on...
Category: Services
People and Places
Lifeboats in the South Seas - in TongaJust before Christmas, Swanage lifeboat station received news of their old lifeboat, Thomas Markby, which served at the station from 1928 to 1949.
The letter came from the Kingdom of...
Category: Articles
Feature: the Lifeboat College
Shaping the future It feels Like a long time since the RNLI announced it intended to build a training college in Poole. Construction started in 2002 and since then hundreds of men and women have laboured to make The Lifeboat College vision a...
Category: Articles
"Literature of the Life-Boat."
IN October of last year a supplement to The Life-boat was published, written by Sir John Gumming, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., a vice-president of the Institution. The supplement, under the title of " Liter- ature of the Life-boat," gave an...
Category: Articles
Admiral Mitford and Thomas & Mary
On the 12th Feb. two of the Filey fishing vessels, the Admiral Mitford, and the Thomas and Mary, which were in the Bay, sent their small boats ashore with fish, leaving only a man and a boy in each yawl. While the men were occupied on the...
Norwegian Cup Awarded to Guernsey Crew Members
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Category: Photographs
Shoreline
WHEN PLANNING the Shoreline appeal to fund a 37'6" Rother Lifeboat to be named RNLB Shoreline, the first target set was £100,000 by the time the boat is ready to launch for her initial trials.
That target is...
Category: Articles
A Happy Collector
A LADY living in a Suffolk village started to have a collecting boat for the Life-boat Service in May 1945. In Mav of this year she sent back the boat for "the sixth time, with £22 Ss. 7d. in it. Altogether in the three years she...
Category: Donations