LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
‘Awesome human beings’
When we heard the RNLI team had managed to get them out safely we were so relieved,’ says Alan, Sebastian and Jacob’s dad. ‘It’s amazing that a team of volunteers are willing to drop everything to come and help.’ The boys’ mum Helen added:... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
THIS August, for the seventh year running, the fishwives of Cullercoats made a collection for the Life-boat Service when the quarterly launch and road exercise of the Cullercoats Life-boat took place.
By collecting this...
Category: Articles
Fishing Cobles
In a mode- rate westerly breeze with a growing sea on the evening of the 2nd September, the services of the Life-boat were called for to assist two of the fishing cobles belonging to Staithes. A telegram from Staithes stated that the boats...
Ameland
Life-Boat O.N. 70-001. At 12.10 a.m.
on yth February, 1966, the crew of the first seventy foot steel life-boat, anchored in Clovelly roads, intercepted a message on the radio from the German motor vessel Ameland stating...
A Life-Boat Story
A dozen of hearts ! and a dozen of hands! And the courage of death 1—'tis a York- shire boast; It was all they asked one November noon, When a hurricane blew on the Whitby coast.
For a cry came over the wailing sands,...
Category: Poetry
R/T Distress Procedure Changes
R/T procedure changes THE FOLLOWING PROCEDURE modifications introduced in the new edition of the Handbook for Radio Operators should be noted: Control of distress traffic: The word 'PRUDENCE' (pronounced PRU-DONCE) has been...
Category: Articles
Greystone and Lady Connaught
DECEMBER 27TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 1.10 A.M. the Hoylake coastguard reported that a vessel had been mined ten miles N.W. of the Bar Lightvessel, and the No. 1 motor life-boat William and Kate Johnston put out. There was a light...
Long-Standing Supporters of the R.N.L.I.
AMONG companies which have given the R.N.L.I. valuable financial support over a number of years are a firm of naval tailors in Harwich, a Leeds brewery, and a Leith firm of shipowners, exporters and importers.
• The Harwich...
Category: Donations
Solstad
Broughty Ferry, Angus, and Aberdeen.
—10th October, 1939. The Swedish vessel Solstad, of Karlstad, had been reported in distress with her steering gear disabled, about fifteen miles S.E.
of Montrose, and...
Clarissa, of Bideford
JUNE 20TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
A message was received from the police that a vessel was flashing a lamp in Conway Bay. A light south-west wind was blowing and the sea choppy. At eleven o’clock the motor life-boat...