LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Speed Boat (1)
FOUR YOUTHS GET ASHORE UNAIDED Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At twenty minutes past two on the afternoon of Sunday the 22nd September, 1963, the coastguard telephoned the honorary secretary to say that a 22-foot sptiedboat with four youths on...
Aries
SWANAGE.—On the llth November the Swanage Life-boat, Charlotte Mary, was the means of saving the smack Aries, of Cowes. That vessel was dragging her anchors in Swanage Bay, when the Lifeboat went to her aid through a heavy sea, and placing...
Fortuna
HORNSEA.—At noon on the 18th April, when it was blowing hard from the eastward, the brig Fortuna, of Oster-Risoer, was driven, ashore to the north of the town, and the Life-boat Ellen and Margaret of Settle was launched, and proceeding...
Two Fishing Smacks
On the 29th April, 1867, j the Grace Darling life-boat went off and assisted safely into harbour two fishing- smacks, which were observed in distress during very stormy weather. Had it not! been for the services of the life-boat, one...
The Famous Partnership of Dulcie Gray (Centre) and Michael Dennison (R)
The famous partnership of Dulcie Gray (centre) and Michael Dennison (r) performed an anthology based on their careers and writings before an audience at Hazlewood Castle, North Yorkshire, last July. It is something they do every other year... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Barmouth Tragedy
It was with great sadness that the RNLI learnt of the tragic loss of Keith Allday, Harbour Master and RNLI volunteer Coxswain, and Atan Massey, Assistant Harbour Master and RNLI volunteer Helmsman, at Barmouth in April this year. They were... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coromandel
19-hour service Dunbar lifeboat was involved in a 19-hour struggle to recover the stricken vessel Coromandel after it became stranded 25 miles east of Eyemouth in Berwickshire. The lifeboat crew endured conditions so rough that one member...
Framed Letter for Coxswain and Crew
A FRAMED letter of commendation signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., has been sent to Coxswain David Cox and the crew of the Wells, Norfolk, life-boat for the rescue of a man and a dog from...
Category: Services
The Launch Intrinsic and Westwind
Beaumaris, Anglesey. — At six o'clock on the evening of the 6th of September, 1950, the launch Intrinsic broke from her moorings. There was a very rough sea and a strong south-south-westerly gale, but her crew were in no immediate danger...
The S.S. Klondike
NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.—The s.s. Klondike, of Laurvig, in ballast from Hartlepool for Blyth, stranded in Gambols Bay while a moderate breeze was blowing from S.S.W., with a moderate sea, on the night of the 15th September. The weather was...