LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services
South Western Division Aground on rocks AT 0205 ON SUNDAY, February 13, the honorary secretary of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, was requested by St Mary's Coastguard to launch to the aid of a French fishing vessel aground on rocks near...
Category: Services
Fishing Boats (1)
ABBROATH.—Several fishing-boats having been overtaken by a strong gale from the S.S.E., and a very heavy sea, on the 30th May, the People's Journal No. 2 Lifeboat was launched at 2.45 A.M., pulled out to the bar, and remained there in...
Shoreline
RNLB SHORELINE, the 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat which was originally funded by our Shoreline appeal, moved station last year from Blyth, in Northumberland, to Arbroath where, on Saturday April 16, a service of re-dedication was held. It may...
Category: Articles
1969: Disaster at Longhope
A close-knit Orkney island remembers the courage and sacrifice of its lifeboat crew who lost their lives 50 years ago
A south-easterly gale had been pounding Scotland’s coast for days, heavy seas forcing the closure of...
Category: Articles
Focus on Dungeness
A visit to the Kentish life-boat station and its crew is described in what is hoped will become a regular series on life-boat stations by Margaret Peter.
The men of Dungeness who form the life-boat crew are proud of their...
Category: Articles
Annual Meeting
THE ninety-first Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was held in the Council Chamber at the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Wednesday, April 21st, 1915, at 3.30 p.m. The Right Hon.
Walter...
Category: Meetings
Hastings - Mersey Class Sealink Endeavour
Deck chair weather for the guests at the naming of the Mersey class Sealink Endeavour by HRH The Duke of Kent at Hastings on 21 September. (Photo Tony Denton). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Constance Brown Who Named the Boat and Who Is Seen Below Receiving a Bouquet from Lorraine Mcdonald
among those on board was Mrs Constance Brown, who named the boat and who is seen below receiving a bouquet from Lorraine McDonald.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Listings
Naming ceremoniesGeorgina Stanley Taylor at Tenby This D class lifeboat is the second to be funded by the generosity of Mrs Georgina Stanley Taylor.
It replaces the Stanley Taylor, which she funded in memory of her late...
Category: Articles
Stranger, of Newfoundland
— On the | night of the same day the schooner i Stranger, of Newfoundland, was driven ,' ashore on Tramore Sands during a fresh gale from the S.S.E. As soon as she was seen information was sent to the coxswain of the...