LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shoreline
SHORELINE STAFF wish all members and everyone connected with the RNLI a happy and successful new year.
October 1974 was a landmark for us, when the 20,000th Shoreline member was enrolled. This member was 12-yearold Linda...
Category: Articles
Annual Report
THE Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, on this its fortyfourth anniversary, beg to return their hearty thanks to all those who have kindly given them their moral and pecuniary support; and they desire also publicly to...
Category: Annual Reports
A Vessel
Dover, Kent.—23rd May, 1939. A vessel had been reported on fire, but it was found that it was only her funnels sending out dense smoke.—Partly permanent paid crew: Rewards, £2 17s..
Two Survivors Dragged from Fishing Vessel
AT eight o'clock on the evening of the 30th January, 1962, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary of the Stornoway life-boat station in the Outer Hebrides, Captain Alexander Mackay, that a fishing vessel was aground off Battery...
Category: Services
(Left) Lerwick's Arun Class
These dramatic photographs capture an incident on Friday 13 January 1989 when the fishing vessel Boy Andrew ran into a narrow gulley at Trebister Ness on Westray in the Shetlands. Lerwick's Arun Soldian took the crew off by Y boat and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Lighthouse
THREE months at sea, and one on shore; Three months at sea—yet not afloat j Around our home the breakers roar, Yet own we neither ship nor boat.
Rock-based, amid the swirl of foam, The lighthouse stands—it is our...
Category: Poetry
The RNLI and me: Clodagh McKenna
WHO IS CLODAGH MCKENNA?
Born in Cork, Clodagh McKenna describes her cooking as: ‘A fresh, modern take on Irish food with a focus on seasonal and local produce.’ Seafood is at the core of her cooking, influencing everything from...
Category: Articles
Fishing Cobles
At about 2 o'clock on the morning of the 6th January three of the fishing cobles belonging to Flamborough put out to sea. About three hours later, when the boats were five miles from home, the N.N.W. wind freshened until it was blowing a...
Fishing Boats (1)
Scarborough, Yorkshire. On the 17th October, 1961, several local fishing boats were at sea, and as the weather was rapidly deteriorating it was decided to launch the life-boat to escort them to harbour. The life-boat J. G. Graves of...
A Ship’s Life-Boat
DEC. 13TH. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT. At 1.30 P.M. a message was received from Ross Lighthouse that a ship’s life-boat had been seen drifting a mile and a half south of the lighthouse. A S.W. breeze was blowing, with a slight sea. At 2.15 P.M. the...