LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Flicks' a Newfoundland Dog Owned By Mr and Mrs M Rydin Collecting for the RNLI During Cowes Week Last Year
'Flicks', a Newfoundland dog owned by Mr. and Mrs. - View image in PDF
M. Rydin, collecting for the R.N.L.I, during Cowes Week last year. - View image in PDF
by courtesy of Mrs. J. Warren. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Louisa, of Bristol
On the 1st January, whilst the ship Louisa, of Bristol, was being towed over Bideford Bar by two steamers during a strong gale from W.S.W., the hawser attached to one steamer break- ing, and the towing-gear of the other giving way, she let...
Boy's Own
DECEMBER 16TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. The motor life-boat Elizabeth and Albina Whitley was launched at 11.45 A.M. in a heavy S.S.E. gale, with a rough sea, to the help of the local motor fishing coble Boy's Own. She found her six...
(left) the RNLI was 166 years old on March 24 and Storm Force member Peter Williams sent this special birthday greeting.
(left) The RNLI was 166 years old on March 24 and Storm Force member Peter Williams sent this special birthday greeting.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Six Life-Boat Men Drowned on Service
DURING the severe storms last December six Life-boat men lost their lives while on service. Five of them were members of the crew of the Life-boat at Rhos- colyn, in Anglesey, and the sixth be- longed to the Boat at Johnshaven, in...
Category: Services
A Ship’s Boat (3)
SEPTEMBER 20TH. - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. During the night of 18th September the sound of bombs and heavy gunfire had been heard out at sea, and on the morning of the 20th a message came from the coast watchers at Hook Pointthat...
Bombed -- But Safe In Port.
A life-boat collecting box has come home after being bombed. It was on board a steamer which was attacked by aeroplanes and set on fire. Her crew abandoned her and 56 of them were landed by the Angle life-boat. Two days later she went...
Category: Articles
August
Launches 40 Lives rescued 93
AUGUST 2ND. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBJULY RIDES. About five in the evening information was received from the coastguard that a motor boat appeared to be in difficulties off Greanhead. A south-east...
Category: Services
Berend N.
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 7th of January, 1954, the Needles coastguard tele- phoned that the motor vessel Berend N., of Delfzijl, had sent a distress message five miles south-east of the Needles. At 1.54 the...
Zenobia
The ketch Zenobia, of London, whilst bound from Sunderland to London with a cargo of bottles, was overtaken by a S.S.E. gale when riding abreast Southwold Harbour, on the 5th February. At the time the master was alone on board, the two hands...