LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Newmarket Charity Race Day
THE RNLI was the beneficiary of the 1983 Newmarket Charity Race Day on Saturday June 25 when just over £13,500 was raised for the lifeboats. Although the morning began dull and overcast, by midday the cloud had dispersed and the sun...
Category: Articles
The Whitby Lifeboat Robert and Ellen Robson Is One of Only Two Pulling Boats Formerly In the Service of the Rnli Still In Existence She Was Built In 1918 By S E Sound
The Whitby lifeboat, Robert and Ellen Robson, is one of only two pulling boats formerly in the service of the RNLI still in existence. She was built in 1918 by S. E. Sounders Ltd, in the Isle of Wight, at a cost of £1,615. Length 34'... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Granton Trawler Marjory M. Hastie
MARCH 4TH. - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE.
At four in the morning the Elie coastguard reported that a trawler was aground near Boarhills, and the motor lifeboat Nellie and Charlie was launched at 4.45.
A strong...
April
Launches 41 Lives rescued 97 APRIL 1ST. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.
About six o’clock in the morning the officerof the watch of H.M.S. Forte III telephoned that a vessel was ashore at Pendennis Castle Point. The tide was low,...
Category: Services
(Below Right) Coxswain Harry Jones Welcomes the Chairman Major-General Ralph Farrant to Hoylake Lifeboat Station on April 25 Committee and Crew Were Present In Str
(Below right) Coxswain Harry Jones welcomes the Chairman, Major-General Ralph Farrant, to Hoylake lifeboat station on April 25.
Committee and crew were present in strength to meet him and show him their 37' 6"... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pictures Above and Below Show the Longhope Lifeboat, the David and Elizabeth King and E.B., Just Before the Naming Was Done By Mrs. Marian Thornton, An Edinburgh Solicitor's Wife, Who Was N
Pictures above and below show the Longhope lifeboat, the David and Elizabeth King and E.B., just before the naming was done by Mrs. Marian Thornton, an Edinburgh solicitor's wife, who was nominated by the family of Miss Charlotte A. King... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mr. Walter Ison (Right), Chairman of Bushey Council, Giving Advice Before the Walkers Set Off from Bushey Meads School.
Mr. Walter Ison (right), chairman of Bushey Council, giving advice before the walkers set off from Bushey Meads School.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Relatives and Friends Watching the Arrival from Scrabster of the Kirkwall Lifeboat Bringing Home to Hoy the Seven Coffins
Relatives and friends watching the arrival from Scrabster of the Kirkwall lifeboat bringing home to Hoy the seven coffins. …. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ross Puma, of Grimsby
Longhope, Orkneys - On 1st April, 1968, the life-boat T.G.B. proceeded to the assistance of the motor trawler Ross Puma of Grimsby and rescued her crew of 15. A full account of this service will appear in the December issue of THE...
January (1)
JANUARY MEETING ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At about 5 in the afternoon of the 21st June, 1940, the coastguard reported a ship’s boat drifting some five miles north of Ilfracombe. A light N.N.W. wind was blowing, with a slight sea.
Category: Services