LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Biscuits and Chocolate
THE Institution desires to express its cordial thanks to Messrs. Huntley and Palmer, Ltd., Messrs. W. and R. Jacob, Ltd., and Messrs. Peak Frean and Co., Ltd., for gifts of biscuitsj for use in the Life-boats; also to Messrs. Cadbury...
Category: Donations
Ay Bee Gee
Yacht holed A YACHT SEEN TO FIRE a red flare, about \\ miles seawards of the Coastguard lookout was reported to the honorary secretary of Walmer lifeboat station at 1130 on Wednesday, September 1. It was almost flat calm when, at 1137, the...
The S.S. Whinstone, of Preston
ON 25th November, just before eight o'clock in the morning, the Donna Nook Life-boat went out in answer to signals of distress. The conditions could not i She found the Whinstone at anchor, after have been worse. A whole gale was I...
Kjorrefjord
Sunderland, Co. Durham.—On the 9th December the Norwegian steamer Kjorrefjord, of Farsund, bound for the Tyne with a general cargo, ran ashore on Whitburn Steel, about two miles north of Sunderland. The wind was only light and the sea smooth...
St Irene
At about 2.25 P.M. on 1st December the steam trawler St. Irene, of Hull, stranded on the Inner Binks, when returning, in dense fog, from Bear Island. She was seen from the shore and the No. 2 Motor Life-boat City of Bradford I. put...
H.M. Minesweeper Ring Dove
JUNE 24TH. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEY A message was received from the Kirkwall coastguard at 11.35 on the night of the 23rd of June that a vessel was ashore in Burwick Bay, South Ronaldshay. A south-east breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea....
Bosphorus
Cromer, Norfolk.—About 6.30 in the evening of the 20th of December, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Bosphorus, of Oslo, of 2,111 tons, bound for Hull from Palestine, with a cargo of oranges and thirty-seven on board,...
Seven-Year-Old Laura Scaife Receives Her Commemorative Storm Force Nameplate from Brian Johnson of Intercity
Seven-year-old Laura Scaife receives her commemorative Storm Force nameplate from Brian Johnson of InterCity after naming the InterCity 125 train after the RNLI's junior club. The Institution was also presented with a mounted... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Boy With Back Injuries Is Airlifted To Hospital From Outside Aberdovey Lifeboat Station
the boy with back injuries is airlifted to hospital from outside Aberdovey lifeboat station Photo: Doris O’Keefe. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Trinity House Vessel Triton
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 2.34 on the afternoon of the 24th of March, 1960, the district superintendent of Trinity House at Great Yarmouth informed the honorary secretary that the Trinity House vessel Triton was unable to...