LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Only 43 of the 65 Students That Took Part In the Gruelling Lyke Wake Walk Finished They Came from South Shields Marine and Technical College and Raised £555 for the Rnli Here Heather Ho
Only 43 of the 65 students that took part in the gruelling Lyke Wake Walk finished.
They came from South Shields Marine and Technical College and raised £555 for the RNLI. Here Heather Howard, the only girl Lyke Wake... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Message from the Chairman of the RNLI Commander F R H Swann OBE RNVR
THOSE who receive THE LIFE-BOAT do so, in the main, for services rendered to the R.N.L.I., as crew members, branch officials, members of the YLA or in other capacities. Our appeal for national membership is not therefore addressed to...
Category: Articles
The Duchess of Kent.
The Duchess of Kent, the new President of the Institution, was anxious to meet as many as possible of those who organise and carry on its work, and after the annual meeting on 8th. July a reception was held at the Savoy...
Category: Articles
Sunk By the Storms
The Norwegian steamer Mi'm which went ashore in the Orkneys on 9th November, 1939. - View image in PDF
The Stromness life-boat rescued 22 of her crew, and a local boat rescued II.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Accident With a Maroon
A MOST unfortunate accident, resulting in the death of the Coxswain, occurred at Port St. Mary, Isle of Man, on 6th August, on which day Life-boat Day and a Road Practice of the Life-boat were to be held. Coxswain Kneen, in firing the maroon...
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Fortieth Anniversary of the Service to the "Eider."
ON the night of Sunday, the 31st Janu- ary, 1892, the four-masted steamer Eider, of Bremen, of 4,719 tons, the Norddeutscher Lloyd, stranded on the reef of rocks in the Isle of Wight, known as Atherfield Ledge. There was a thick fog, the...
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The Belgian Motor Trawler Ibis
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT DUNMORE EAST FEBRUARY 28TH and MARCH 1ST.- DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD.
At 11.15 in the morning of the 28th the motor life-boat C. & S., of Dunmore East, was launched to the help of the...
Obituaries
With deep regret we record the following deaths: JUNE 1990 Mrs Dorothy Rowson, founder secretary of Wainfleet and District ladies guild from 1962 to 1970 when she held the office of treasurer/secretary until she was elected as president in...
Category: Obituaries
Casamance (1)
FEBRUARY 17TH. - HARTLEPOOL, AND SEAHAM, DURHAM, AND REDCAR, AND WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. Shortly after midnight a message came to the Hartlepool honorary secretary’s house from the coastguard that the life-boat was wanted. The honorary secretary...
Turpina
Capsized yacht WHILE CROSS CHANNEL FERRY Viking Venturer was entering the Needles Channel on Monday evening July 3 she reported at 2002 the sighting of a capsized and semi-sunken yacht five cables south of Bridge Buoy. There was no sign of...