LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

With the building of a 48 foot 6 inch steel-hulled life-boat the Royal National Life-boat Institution has introduced a new class of boat into the service. A life- boat of this type was shown to the press at Southampton on 17th July, 1969.<...

KASTBOURNK: Two 11-year-old boys were rescued by Eastbourne's I6f't I) class inflatable lifeboat on the evening of Thursday, January 7, 1988, after their small dinghy filled with water and began to sink. Their cries for help were...

Coaster aground LATE ON THE NIGHT OF Saturday November 9, 1985, the Dutch coaster, Anne, radioed that she was dragging her anchor and getting close to Long Scar rocks near Hartlepool. There was a north-north-easterly strong gale force 9,...

On the 9th January the steam trawler Limeicold of Grimsby, when outward bound, ran ashore on the north side of the " Black Middens." The motor Life-boat Henry Vernon proceeded to her assistance and brought up alongside the vessel....

JANUARY 29TH-31ST and FEBRUARY 1ST.

- CLOUGHEY, AND DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. At 12.50 A.M. information came to the Cloughey station from the coastguard at Tara that the S.S. Alhena, of Rotterdam, of 5,000 tons, laden with...

A TIME TO PAUSE AND LOOK BACK AROUND THE BEGINNING of the nineteenth century 31 'Original' lifeboats built by Henry Greathead of South Shields were established in ports and harbours scattered all round the British Isles. Not a great...

THE WORLD'S FINEST BINOCULARS There is an extravagant pleasure owning something which represents the ultimate in quality and craftsmanship . . . bearing a name which is always mentioned with pride. This is why everyone wants to own a...

RNLI MEMBERSHIP SCHEME We are grateful to Christopher McGough, one of our Annual Governors, who has brought to our attention some historical notes concerning the membership scheme and, as we reach yet another milestone, it is an opportune...