LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy (7)
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 7.52 on the evening of the 17th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a 13-feet sailing dinghy was overdue at Isle Ornsay, Skye. It was high water when the life-boat E. M....
I name this lifeboat ...
If you could name a lifeboat, what would you pick? One of our youngest supporters, Rachel Fairhurst (13) from Gateshead, has called a Shannon class lifeboat Storm Rider.
Members of Storm Force, the RNLI club for children,...
Category: Articles
Clipper of Great Yarmouth
On the night of the 24th January, dating a heavy gale from S.S.W., guns were heard from the St.
Nicholas Light Vessel, and rockets were thrown up, indicating a vessel in distress.
The crew of the large...
The American Liberty Ship James Harrold
JANUARY 16TH. - WALMER, KENT. The American Liberty ship James Harrold had been in collision with the S.S. Ramon Stern, had caught fire and been abandoned by her crew. The sea was smooth. The life-boat searched for five hours without finding...
King John, of Dover
SEPTEMBER 21ST. - RAMSGATE, KENT.
At 10.32 at night a message was received through the coastguard from a tug attending on the S.S. Helena Modjeska, which had gone aground east of North West Goodwin Buoy on the 12th of...
Viscount Lambton, of Rochester
Duff, did good service on the 22nd March in saving the Master and crew of 7 men from the brig Viscount Lambton, of Roches-ter, which had gone on Yarmouth Beach, near the North Star Battery, during a i gale from the E.S.E., and in a very...
St. Alexei
CLACTON.—On the morning of the 4th January, while a whole gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, the coxswain of the Life-boat saw a vessel stranded on the Baxey Sand. The crew of the Lifeboat Albert Edward were summoned and the boat put...
The Institution's Expenditure at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was laid out in 1937.
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67 4 0 m mi—mmm — mmm- —i —*—— — Construction, Repairs, Upkeep and Inspection of Life-...
Category: Accounts
A Bronze Medal Service at Maryport
ON the morning of 17th January the 2,500-ton steamer Plawsworth, of New- castle-on-Tyne, which was at anchor off Workington, Cumberland, dragged her anchors in a south-west gale, and went ashore. A very heavy sea was...
Category: Services
Marston Green and District Branch Which Raised £132 for the Rnli
Could these two be having a language problem? Scooby, the Great Dane, meets Italian Greyhound Mattie, whose owner doesn't seem to approve of what is being said. These were just two of the 70 entrants in the dog show organised by Marston... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs