LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats
On the 12th February, the Grace Darling was again launched and stood by some fishing-boats which had been overtaken by a rough sea..
Sunderland: GRANGETOWN PRIMARY HIT THE SURF
Last autumn, Year 4, 5 and 6 children from Grangetown Primary School in Sunderland enjoyed a Hit the Surf session with RNLI volunteers at Seaburn Beach. After a safety talk about flags and currents, they donned wetsuits and split into two...
Category: Articles
Kindly Light
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 12.25 on the afternoon of the 6th of January, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a local fish- ing boat was overdue. There was a rough sea and a strong southerly...
Lowestoft: a Trimaran on Passage from Wells to Ramsgate Was Reported Making Water Fast Sunday August 6 Lowestoft's 47Ft Watson Lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick
Lowestoft: A trimaran on passage from Wells to Ramsgate was reported making water fast on Sunday August 6. Lowestoft's 47ft Watson lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick launched at 0554 and reached the casualty at 0750. Three people were taken... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Come On
DORNOCH FIRTH AND EMBO.—Signals of distress having been seen on the evening of the 20th January, the Life-boat Daisie was launched, and found the Come On, an open fishing-boat belonging to Gardenstown, Port of Banff, with a crew of six men,...
Hopwood (1902 to 1924)
Hopwood (7902 to 1924), a 35ft Liverpool, was Portrush's last pulling and sailing lifeboat. Former coxswain Thomas Patton is at her helm. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of 'Coleraine Chronicle'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Another Success for Queen Victoria
The beautifully restored 1887 pulling and sailing lifeboat, Queen Victoria, was in action again on 30 May when she was hauled overland from Bembridge to Sandown on the Isle of Wight. Queen Victoria is thought to be the oldest surviving RNLI... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Philip Weeks
Limited Edition Prints Passing Longstone The Liverpool class lifeboat Grace Darling stationed at Seahouses passing Longstone lighthouse in the 1960s.
Passing Beachy Head The Beach class Watson Beryl Tollemache of Eastbourne...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1932
1932.
Jan. 1.
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Time of Launching.
2.40 p.m.
9.30 a.m.
1.45 p.m.
0. 1.10 a.m.
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Category: Services
Prospect
EYEMOUTH, N.B.—On the 26th December, the smack Prospect, of this place, came into the bay before daybreak, and as the sea in the roadstead was heavy at the time, her anchor was dropped butdid not hold; the waves then drove the vessel in...