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People and Places

Date: Winter 1992

Volume: 52

Issue: 519

New Year honours Her Majesty the Queen has honoured three people for their services to the RNLI in this year's New Year Honours: Mrs Marion Judge, lately member and officer of Wakefield ladies' lifeboat guild, has been made a Member,...

Category: Articles

Topaz

Date: August 1913

Volume: 22

Issue: 249

The George Gordon Moir Life- boat saved six of the crew of the steamer Topaz, of Glasgow, shortly after midnight on the 14-15th January. It appears that the steamer, which was bound to Glasgow with a cargo of pig-iron, struck Burrow Head and...

A Book for Review

Date: March 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 411

THE first in a series of books which will undoubtedly become standard works on the history of the Cornish fife-boats. Wreck and Rescue Round the Cornish Coast by Cyril Noall and Grahame Farr (D. Bradford Barton, 2is.), is both an admirable...

Category: Articles

Books

Date: Winter 1988

Volume: 50

Issue: 503

• Tenby's first lifeboat, a 10-oared self-righting vessel, costing £125, was sent to the Welsh port in 1852 by The Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Benevolent Society which, two years later, handed over all its lifeboats to...

Category: Articles

On Board the Humber Life-Boat

Date: September 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 393

Left to right : Coxswain Superintendent Robertson Buchan, Admiral Sir William Slayter; ex-Coxswain Robert Cross. - View image in PDF

(see page 487). - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Six Medals for Gallantry

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

Six Medals for Gallantry WEST KIRBY, CHESHIRE On the 6th February, 1943, two men in a small boat were rescued.

MR. BENJAMIN S. ARMITAGE was awarded the bronze medal.

MR. HERBERT JONES, coxswain of the...

Category: Medals

Anmara (1)

Date: Summer 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 501

Long Search THE STERN TRAWLER Anmara and her crew of three were reported overdue from Scarborough on the evening of May 21, 1987 and a search was organised by Humber Coastguard, to begin at first light on the following day.

(Above and Near Right} the Lifeboat Manoeuvres

Date: Summer 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 545

(above and near right} The lifeboat manoeuvres alongside Supenramp as she pounds on the rocks in a Force 7. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

No Picnic

Date: Spring 2008

Volume: 61

Issue: 583

Amazingly, Poole lifeboats hadn’t been called out for a month, belying our status as one of the busiest coastal stations, but on Sunday 28 October at 10.59am, my pager broke its silence. Spurred into action, I knew that it could be something...

Category: Articles

Dakota

Date: November 1877

Volume: 10

Issue: 106

BULL BAY.—At 10 P.M. on the 9th May, a stiff breeze blowing from the E., the Guion Company's steamer Dakota, bound from Liverpool to New Tork, was reported to be ashore close in under the cliffs, inside the East Mouse. This vessel...