LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Ronja Borchard
Amble, and Boulmer, Northumberland.
•—About 6.30 in the morning of the 10th of February, 1950, the Amble coastguard reported to the Amble life- boat authorities that a vessel was ashore near Coquet Island; and the life-boat...
Miss Letitia French, Honorary Secretary of the Palling Station
BY the death of Miss Letitia French, of Palling, Suffolk, on 6th April, the Institution has lost a most valued helper and one who had the distinction of having been, for a number of years, the only woman Honorary Secretary of a Station. Miss...
Category: Obituaries
Men of Courage
Books by Vice-Admiral Gordon Campbell and Commander H. B. Baothby.
Brave Men All. By Vice-Admiral Gordon Campbell, V.C., D.S.O. (Hodder & Stoughton, 7s. 6d. net).
Spunyarn. By Commander H....
Category: Articles
The Radio Ship Mi Amigo
Radio ship aground WHILE HER CREW were still on board after returning from a rough weather exercise on Wednesday March 19, Sheerness lifeboat received a VHP call at 1753 from Thames Coastguard telling them that the radio ship Mi Amigo had...
The S.S. Gustav Bitter
POLPEAR (LIZARD) AND CADGWITH.— On the morning of the 4th March the s.s. Gustav Bitter, of Newcastle-on-Tyne while proceeding from London to the Manchester Ship Canal with a general cargo, stranded on the Callidges Rocks, off the Lizard...
Manx Lass, of Peel (1)
SEPTEMBER 18TH. -PORT ERIN, AND PEEL, ISLE OF MAN. At 11.21 in the morning the Castletown coastguard reported to the Port Erin life-boat station that the Peel life-boat, had launched at eleven o’clock to search for the herring drifter Manx...
Sunday Concerts
THE Committee of Management have had before them the question of Sunday concerts and other Sunday entertain- ments ; and it has been represented to them that support for the Life-boat Cause may be made an excuse for the promotion of Sunday...
Category: Articles
Vale of Nith, of Liverpool
On the morning of the 16th Nov., the services of the tubular Life-boat were re- quired by a large barque ashore on the West Middle Line. She proceeded out at once, and, at the request of the master, remained alongside the stranded vessel,...
The Dutch Oil Tanker Georgia (2)
AT 8.30, in the evening of 21st November, 1927, the Motor Life-boat at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston was launched in response to a wireless message received from s.s. Trent that help was urgently required to save the lives of the crew of the...
Cover Picture
Appledore Atlantic 21 inshore lifeboat breasts heavy surf in Bideford Bay. She was donated by RAF personnel and their families stationed at Wildenrath, Germany, who raised more than £5,000 for the RNLI in just one... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs