LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Emma, of Shields
On the 5th January, the barque Emma, of Shields, was driven on the Red- car rocks, near the River Tees, on the York- shire coast. The Redcar life-boat was at once manned and proceeded to the rescue of her crew. After getting twice alongside...
Stingray
Rhyl, Flintshire. On 5th December, 1965, the coastguard reported that four vessels appeared to be sheltering under the lee of Penmon Head opposite Old Colwyn and that one of the vessels was drifting. A watch was kept and the motor fishing...
The Decoration of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
LIST OF PERSONS on whom the Committee of Management have conferred (prior to 31st December, 1907) the Decoration of the Institution for conspicuous and special services in the Life-boat cause other than actual personal...
Category: Awards
The S.S. Beresford (1)
WINTERTON AND PALLING. — On the night of the 31st of January last, the s.s. Beresford, of West Hartlepool, bound from Middlesbrough for Bombay, with a general cargo, stranded on Hasborough Sand during a thick fog, a S.W. wind, and a heavy...
The S.S. Asia
Penlee, Cornwall. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 2nd of February, 1959, the port medical officer told the honorary secretary that the s.s. Asia of Liverpool, which was then three miles south-south-west of Carn Du, was making for...
S.S. Empire Prospero
JANUARY 4TH. - TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE.
At 9.15 in the morning the port war signal station telephoned that a steamer was ashore on the North Gare Breakwater.
A strong and increasing north-north-east wind...
Saved from sinking car
INVERGORDON | 6 SEPTEMBER
Invergordon RNLI rescued a man from a sinking Land Rover at Cromarty Firth. The all-weather lifeboat Douglas Aikman Smith was called at 6.40am to Invergordon Sailing Club...
Category: Articles
Rear Admiral Sir Edmund Irving, Kbe Cb, a Vicepresident of the RNLI Presented a Plaque to Abbotsford County Secondary Boys School on October 4, 1974, In Recogni
Rear Admiral Sir Edmund Irving, KBE CB, a vicepresident of the RNLI presented a plaque to Abbotsford County Secondary Boys School on October 4, 1974, in recognition of the support the school has given the Institution over the years.View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs Joan Shipway,
Mrs Joan Shipway, flag week organiser and box secretary from 1985 to 1995. She was awarded a statuette in 1990..
Category: Obituaries
Three Knot Marvel
The launching ceremony and trial run of a four-foot scale model of the Howth life-boat took place recently at Baldoyle. The builder, twenty years old Derick Riley of "Alverno", Strand Road, Baldoyle, Dublin, is a science student at...
Category: Articles