LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Planning ahead … together
At the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents’ Water Safety Congress in November, a new UK-wide database was launched that will allow the RNLI to share information easily with agencies including the Ambulance, Police, Fire and...
Category: Articles
June (1)
JUNE MEETING HAROLDSWICK, UNST, SHETLANDS. At 7.40 A.M. on the 15th April, 1940. the subpostmaster at Haroldswick reported to the coastguard that a small ship’s boat, with men on board, had been seen in Haroldswick Bay about a mile from the...
Category: Services
Solihull Appeal
Although the Borough of Solihull Lifeboat Appeal formally closed in September of last year, money kept flooding in after that date and the total raised was £41,310.74.
The money will be used to purchase a new Atlantic... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Casamance (1)
FEBRUARY 17TH. - HARTLEPOOL, AND SEAHAM, DURHAM, AND REDCAR, AND WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. Shortly after midnight a message came to the Hartlepool honorary secretary’s house from the coastguard that the life-boat was wanted. The honorary secretary...
Above: a Welcome Sight
Above: A welcome sight for the Lone yachtsman: Frederick Storey Cockburn coming to the rescue. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs J B Ritchie President of Ramsey Branch and Ladies' Guild and Donor of Ramsey's 37Ft Oakley Lifeboat James Ball Ritchie and Port St.Mary's 54Ft Arun the Gough Ritchie Was Awarded Hon
Mrs J. B. Ritchie, president of Ramsey branch and ladies' guild and donor of Ramsey's 37ft Oakley lifeboat James Ball Ritchie and Port St Mary's 54ft Arun The Gough Ritchie, was awarded honorary life governorship of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Remember the Life-Boat
Come, now, a cheer for tho Life-boat And its gallant fearless crew; Only give them a chance, lads, And you'll see what they can do.
No matter how dirty tho weather, Or how fierce the wind may blow, They're ready...
Category: Poetry
First Man to Greet the Atlantic Heroes Captain John Ridgway and Sergeant Chay Blyth When They Stepped Ashore at Kilronan on the Aran Islands on 3rd September, 1966
First man to greet the Atlantic heroes, Captain John Ridgway and Sergeant Chay Blyth when they stepped ashore at Kilronan, on the Aran Islands, on 3rd September, 1966, after their 92 day voyage of 3,000 miles, was Father Joseph McNamara, the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Aiva
Lone yachtsman saved PORT ERIN'S 37ft 6in Rother class lifeboat Osman Gabriel launched at 1502 on April 18, 1987 following reports from Ramsey Coastguard of the yacht Aiva in difficulties and taking water 10 miles north west of the Calf...
The S.S. Firethorn
STEAMER ABANDONED IN HEAVY SEA Barrow, Lancashire.—At 10.35 on the night of January llth, 1947, informa- tion was received, through the Hoylake coastguard, from the Morecambe Bay Light-vessel, that a vessel was in distress, and the motor...