LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy
Troon, Ayrshire - At 4.20 p.m. on 9th April, 1966, the police told the honorary secretary that a dinghy had capsized off Croy Hotel and two people were hanging on to the boat. The lifeboat James and Barbara Aitken was launched at 4.35 in a...
A Happy Collector
A LADY living in a Suffolk village started to have a collecting boat for the Life-boat Service in May 1945. In Mav of this year she sent back the boat for "the sixth time, with £22 Ss. 7d. in it. Altogether in the three years she...
Category: Donations
Good Fellowship
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 8.15 on the morning of the 10th of February, 1953, it was reported that the local fishing boat Good Fellowship was bound for North Sunderland from Blyth, with a crew of four, and was then east of Newton....
Progress
Tynemouth, Northumberland - At five o'clock in the morning on 21st December, 1969, the coastguard reported that the motor fishing vessel Progress, with two men aboard, had been drifting all night off the harbour. The life-boat Tynesider...
Malvina
DEC. 23RD. - WELLS, NORFOLK. At 1 P.M. it was reported that three fishing boats had gone to sea at 5 A.M. Two had come back at about 11 A.M. but the third, Malvina, with a crew of three, was missing. A light N.W. wind was blowing with a...
100 Years Ago
THE present year (1861) came in on our English north-eastern coast in storm and fury. For the two last days of the dying year a tempest had been brewing; and on New-Year's Day, when we quiet city folks were exchanging "com- pliments...
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Fishing Cobles (1)
Runswick, Yorkshire. — Four fishing cobles put to sea in moderate weather at 7 A.M. on the 31st December, 1937.
Later on, conditions got bad, and by 10.45 A.M. a moderate gale was blowing from the N.N E., with a rough...
The Fishing Trawler Onedin and a Motor Fishing Boat
January gales A HALFDECKER motor fishing boat was seen to be dragging her anchors off Arranmore, Aran Island, on the afternoon of Wednesday January 11, 1984.
A gale was blowing from the north west, the seas were very rough...
Kings of the Sea
The relationship between the RNLI and the Sea King helicopters of the RAF's Aeronautical Rescue Coordination Centre has proved vital in many rescue missions.
James Ferguson visited RAF Kinloss to find out more about...
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Oh dear, oh deer On 21 May Bridlineton's D class lifeboat Bridlington's was launched after two deer from a nearby park took to the water when chased by dogs.
We reproduce the station honorary secretary's report...