LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Heron II
Rescued two FOLLOWING SEVERAL 999 CALLS from citizen band radio operators reporting a distress call from the cabin cruiser Heron II, Liverpool Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Flint lifeboat station at 1945 on the evening of...
Three Motor Life-Boat Launches. Kingstown, Baltimore and St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly
SINCE the last number of The Life-Boat appeared, the inauguration ceremonies of three new Motor Life-boats have taken place, of the Dunleary, at Kingstown— her splendid voyage from Cowes to Ireland was described by Commander Stopford C....
Category: Inaugurations
News
Busy first year for Thames lifeboats Thames lifeboats were called out over 800 times during their first year of service. This is almost three times as many as estimated prior to setting up the service on 1 January 2002. Callouts range from...
Category: Articles
Peep Into the Past
100 years ago The summer 1906 issue of the Journal featured an old sea dogliterally - in a report on the Clacton lifeboat, which went to the aid of a wrecked schooner Renner. The schooner's captain had been reluctant to leave his beloved...
Category: Articles
Last word
Emailers, letter writers, Facebook users and Tweeters have all been in touch to share their support. If you'd like to do the same, write to us using the details at the front of the magazine, or get involved with our social...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats In 1961
Date Station 1961 Jan. 1 Weymouth 4 Kirkcudbright 4 Penlee 5 Troon 6 Scarborough 6 Troon ..
„ 6 Weymouth ,, 6 Dover 6 Whitby „ 7 Maltaig 9 Wick ,, 11 Lerwick 12 Padstow No. 1 12 Arklow 13...
Category: Services
Whitby's Old Lifeboat Is Moved
During refurbishment of the museum in 2004, Whitby's old f lifeboat is moved to a temporary f home using traditional manpower. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st January to the 31st March 1878
HARTLEPOOL.—On the 4th January, at about 6 A.M., the s.s. Balmoral, of London, ran ashore on the North Sands, off Hartle- pool, at half-ebb tide. At low water she was high and dry; but when the tide rose the wind and sea began to make. At...
Category: Services
Colin Stewart,
Colin Stewart, chairman of the Harlow and District branch. He was a member of the committee since 1971 and had been chairman since 1978..
Category: Obituaries
Bookshelf
Lifeboat station histories The History of the Sheerness Lifeboats by Jeff Morris published by the author at £2.50 This, the latest of the author's comprehensive booklets on RNLI stations, was published in late 1996 when Sheerness...
Category: Articles