LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Heaving Line
The heaving line. photograph by courtesy of Ambrose Greenway. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Letters
The winter 2004/05 issue of the Lifeboat included a plea for help from Shoreline member Nigel Whitfield, who has been dubbed a mere 'land lubber' by his boss, a keen dinghy sailor and diver. Our readers came up trumps for Nigel, and...
Category: Correspondence
Formby Lifeboat Station 1776-1919 By Barbara and Reginald Yorke
UNTIL RECENT TIMES the approaches to the Port of Liverpool were quite hazardous. The difficulties stemmed from the fact that seaward of the northern extremity of the Wirral peninsula the estuary suddenly opens out to become very shallow for...
Category: Articles
A Piece of D Action
RNLI Director, Andrew Freemantle, is always keen to get in the thick of it and get his hands dirty - and recently he got thrown about and drenched when he tried his hand at shearwater rafting.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Left: Alan Tate
Left: Alan Tate, superintendent of the Inshore Lifeboat Centre, Cowes. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1891
THE MOST HONORABLE THE MARQUIS OP HARTINGTON, M.P., IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by The Most Hon. The generously given to the Service by the Local Honorary Secretaries, Treasurers and Committees.
Seconded by The...
Category: Meetings
John and Mary, of Shields
At daylight on the 19th October, a large brig was seen to be ashore on the West Sands off this place, with a signal of distress flying in the main rigging. The weather was terrific, a gale of wind blowing from the north, and bringing in a...
Mr. G. B. Dixon, of Walthamstow
By the death of Mr. George B.
Dixon, of Walthamstow, at the age of seventy-six, the Institution has lost one of its most valued honorary secretaries. He was appointed honor- ary secretary in 1923, and, in spite of the...
Category: Obituaries
Our Boys
Skegness, Lines. At 4.25 on the afternoon of the 4th of October, 1959, the coastguard told the coxswain that red flares had been seen coming from a fishing boat off Ingoldmells Point. At 4.55 the life-boat The Cuttle was launched in a rough...
Amor, of Elsfletch
The Bradford life-boat also rescued the crew of 8 men of the brigantine Amor, of Elsfleth, which had stranded on the north- west spit of the Goodwin Sands .....