LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Golden Oriole
Campbeltown, Argyllshire - At 10.26 p.m. on 12th January, 1968, the motor mechanic informed the honorary secretary that he had intercepted a radio message from the motor fishing vessel Golden Oriole reporting that she was in difficulties...
Mo-Jo, of New Quay
New Quay, Cardiganshire - At 6.10 p.m. on 29th August, 1968, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties three to four miles west of New Quay head. The IRB was launched at 6.25 in a fresh north easterly breeze...
Rescue by Yorkshire Fishermen
Two Redcar fishermen, Mr. Cecil Picknett and Mr. Frederick Stamp, have received framed letters of appreciation signed by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I.
for rescuing two people after a coble had capsized on 8th December, 1969....
Category: Articles
Relief Fleet - Atlantic 75 Susan Peacock
Susan Peacock, the first of the new Atlantic 75s, is put through her paces shortly before her naming ceremony. - View image in PDF
The new 75', a direct development of the Atlantic 21 , will gradually replace the 21 .. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboats Will Always Launch
Lifeboats will always launch, whatever the weather, but one way of reducing the calls on the service is to identify the reasons for distress calls and to work towards preventing those circumstances from occurring in the first place. This is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Happier Time:
Happier time: Rear Admiral W. J. Graham, Director of the RNLI, is pictured with some of the parents of the children who died at Land's End in 1985, after the handing over of a cheque for £52,000 in the boys' memory.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Salcombe
SALCOMBE, DEVON On the 4th December, 1943, the Salcombe life-boat rescued the crew of eleven of the Admiralty salvage craft L.C.18.
COXSWAIN EDWIN WILLIAM DISTIN was awarded the bronze medal,.
Category: Medals
Greyhound, of Liverpool
JULY 19TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.
At six in the morning information was received from the Dock Board that a fishing boat was ashore on the revetment opposite Gamma Buoy, with spray going over her. A fresh westerly breeze...
Scotland's Year.
1942 was Scotland's year. Scottish life-boatmen rescued 357 of the 596 lives, and the two stations of Great Britain and Ireland which rescued most lives were Peterhead, with 135, and Campbeltown with 74. Scotland also won 18 of the 38...
Category: Articles
Scottish Fishermen Return Rewards
Twenty Scottish fishermen from Argyllshire, Wigtownshire and Arran have returned as gifts to the Institution nearly £30 which they had received from it for going out to the help of crashed aeroplanes. Ten of the men had gone to the...
Category: Articles