LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Left) Just One of the Cheques Presented at the Show - More Than £95,000 from The
(Left) Just one of the cheques presented at the show - more than £95,000 from the Royal Bank of Scotland, the proceeds of the affinity credit card for the year. A delighted Ian Ventham, RNLI head of fundraising (left) receives the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Fishing Coble and Ayton Castle (1)
NORTH SUNDERLAND and HOLY ISLAND.
—On the morning of the 27th January, five fishermen put off in a coble from North Snnderland, for the purpose of shooting wild ducks on the Fame Islands.
Two of the men...
The S.S. Matra
NOV. 13TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 6.54 P.M. a messagc was received from the coastguard that a vessel was burning flares near the Tongue Light-vessel. A fresh S.W.
breeze was blowing. The sea was smooth.
At...
Surfboards
An 11-year-old girl and her father were surfing on holiday in North Cornwall when the high tide swept them away. It was early evening on 10 August when a horrified mother watched her daughter and husband drifting further and further away...
Pilot Me (1)
— The Whitby motor fishing boat Pilot Me was unable to make her home port on the morning of 8th April owing to a moderate northerly gale and very rough sea. She decided to run for Scarborough, and this information having been passed on by...
The S.S. Harley
FEBRUARY 5TH. - CROMARTY. At 6.25 A.M. the Burghead coastguard reported distress signals from a vessel aground one mile west of Findhorn, and the motor life-boat James Macfee was launched at 6.45 A.M. A moderate S.W. wind was blowing, with a...
Daniel
Informa- tion having been received on the llth October that a vessel was ashore on the West Hoyle Bank, steps were taken to verify it, and at 5.35 P.M. signals were fired for the Life-boat. With all despatch the H. 0. Powell was launched and...
A Steamer
FEBRUARY 27TH. - THE LIZARD, CORNWALL.
At eleven in the morning the coastguard telephoned that the naval authorities had asked for the services of the life-boat to search for survivors of a steamer which had been torpedoed...
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
BAD times, bad trade and, last not least, bad weather, have all militated against a full measure of success to the efforts and labours of the Life-boat Saturday workers during the past year, but notwithstanding difficulties, often of no...
Category: Articles
Barendsz
APRIL 26TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE.
The motor vessel Barendsz, of Rotterdam, was flying a four-flag signal, but it was found to be her name in code and she had only come in close for shelter in an easterly gale. Two...