LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shoreline
Recruitment drive Peterborough Shoreline club No 8 have asked that it be known that they are still very much alive and kicking, meeting on the third Wednesday of every month. They are appealing both to existing Shoreline members within their...
Category: Articles
M.F.V. Ecstasy and M.F.V. Broadside
Escort THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of Southwold lifeboat station received a request at 1335 on Monday January 31, 1983, for the lifeboat to escort MFV Ecstasy and MFV Broadside to Lowestoft; the weather was too bad for the fishing vessels...
A "Greater London" Motor Life-Boat. Gift from the Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
THE Motor Life-boat of the Ramsgate type, which was sent to Southend-on- Sea last May, is to be a gift from the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, which has not only presented the boat, costing £8,500, but has endowed her. She is to be...
Category: Inaugurations
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK AND WELLS, 1 NOKFOLK.—The large sailing Life-boat on j the Gorleston station, which was transferred there from Great Yarmouth in 1883, having become unfit for further service, has recently been replaced by a new boat of...
Category: Articles
The Norseman, of Montrose
OCTOBER 31ST. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT. At 8.5 at night the Portpatrick coastguard reported a fishing vessel making distress signals off the Isle of Whithorn. A strong southerly breeze was blowing, with heavy rain. The sea was very rough. The motor...
Lines on Seeing a Life-Boat In An Inland Town
GOD speed thee, thou life-boat! for blest is thy mission— To save poor weak man from the wild ocean's rage; When the heavens are black, and the dark waves are roaring, And dread is the war which the elements wage.
All...
Category: Poetry
A Fishing Boat and a Dinghy
MARCH 27TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. A vessel coming in reported that she had found a small fishing boat and a dinghy with no one on board, and the life-boat made a wide search for her crew, but found nothing.- Rewards, £4 5s..
Loss of Member of Exmouth Crew
AT 4.59 on the afternoon of Christmas Day, 1956, the coastguard informed the Exmouth honorary secretary, Mr.
P. H. C. Butler, that a vessel was burning- red flares four miles south- east of Orcombc Point. This is about...
Category: Services
Maxim
"While a whole gale was blowing from S.W. on the 28th March, signals of distress were shown by the brigantine Maxim, of and from Drogheda for Liverpool, in ballast, which had stranded about three hundred yards south of the harbour. She...
Good Show
The RNLI's presence at the 1998 London International Boat Show once again proved to be a great success. Financial income, including sales items, membership recruitment and donations, was up 13% on last year's total - £10,000 was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs