LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Motor Fishing Vessels Ocean Venture, Lead Us, and Wakeful
Whitby, Yorkshire - At 12.40 p.m.
on 5th January, 1967, news was received that three local fishing vessels were still at sea and the weather was deteriorating rapidly with very heavy seas breaking at the approach to the...
Salvage Payments to Life-Boats' Crews
SALVAGE PAYMENTS TO LIFEBOATS' CREWS.
As it often happens that the life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION are the means of saving vessels and their cargoes from destruction, or of materially contributing...
Category: Articles
Communications Received
Lincolnshire Coast Shipwreck Association.—Rock off Fastnet, Cape Clear.—Tallies on Rocket and Mortar Lines.—Wreck of the Ship Columtus at Hook Point, Waterford, in January, 1852.
Category: Articles
To Raise Money for the Nottinghamshire Appeal Andrew Foss a Young Shoreline
To raise money for the Nottinghamshire appeal, Andrew Foss, a young Shoreline member, had the idea of painting an outline 33ft Brede lifeboat on a piece of hardboard.
He and his friend Adrian Hall (they are both 12 years... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs. Polly Donkin, of Cullercoats
The fishwife who has collected £501 in 12 years. (See previous page.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On Board the Aberdeen Life-Boat In a Heavy Sea
On Board The Aberdeen Life-Boat In A Heavy Sea. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services
The Lifeboat Tyne class 47-026 Garstde The Crew Vellum Coxswain Malcolm Gray for his 'tenacity, determination and seamanship... Any miscalculation could have resulted in the lifeboat being beached or grounded on the rocks or even...
Category: Services
A Hundred Years Ago
Youghal, Ireland.—On the 8th February, the Norwegian barque Galatea ran on shore on the bar at the entrance of Youghal harbour, the captain having mistaken the port for Queenstown : a gale of wind was blowing at the time from the south, and...
Category: Articles
‘I DON’T WANT ANYONE GOING THROUGH WHAT WE HAVE’
Our lifesavers rescue thousands every Summer, but not everyone can be saved. That’s why the RNLI has launched its biggestever campaign – and why a father in mourning has bravely spoken about why everybody should Respect the Water...
Category: Articles
Samba
Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 11.24 on the morning of the 28th of December, 1956, the coastguard telephoned to say the motor vessel Samba, of Gothenburg1, which had been drifting with engine trouble 122 miles south- east of Lerwick since the...