LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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FISHING COBLE FINDS BODY OF BOY Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. At 5.38 on the evening of the 4th May, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of a report that a boy had fallen over the cliffs at Rosehearty bombing range. The police...
Ennal's Point
Ray Kipling, public relations officer RNLI, has been talking to Alun Richards, the Welsh novelist and play write who has adapted his lifeboat-based novel 'Ennal's Point' into a six-part television drama series which will be shown...
Category: Articles
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JUNE MEETING CARNE, Co. WEXFORD. On the night of the 16th March, 1941, the steam trawler Thomas Booth, of Milford Haven, when on her way to the fishing grounds, ran on to the Whelkeen Rock, a mile off shore, S.S.E. of Wexford. The weather...
Category: Services
Water and wine
If you appreciate a glass of red, white or rosé, mywineclub offers an exciting range of quality wines from around the world. Buy from mywineclub.co.uk/rnli and 10% of the value of your first order will come to the RNLI and 5% of any...
Category: Articles
A Fishing Boat
EXMOUTH, DEVON.—A fishing boat which had proceeded to sea in favourable weather early in the morning of the 24th March, was overtaken by a strong gale from S.S.W., and as the sea became very heavy accompanied by a very thick rain,...
Wells IRB Helping a Norwich Couple In Trouble When Their Sailing Boat Capsized at Blakeney Norfolk
Wells IRB helping a Norwich couple in trouble when their sailing boat capsized at Blakeney, Norfolk, on 31st August, 1968. A member of the IRB crew, Mr. Tony Pulford, has gone overboard to assist.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Saint Kentigern
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — About 11.25 on the night of the 10th of March, 1952, a life-boatman reported that he had heard a wireless message from the motor vessel Saint Kentigern, of Glasgow, laden with coal with a crew of eight. She had...
People and Places
Record draw The RNLI's 80th lifeboat lottery drawn on 31 January raised a incredible £212,000 from tickets sales - the previous highest total was last year's Summer lottery raising £182,000.
Andrew...
Category: Articles
Ballasting Boats
IT will be remembered that some months ago there occurred a lamentable boat accident in the River Thames, when no less than ten promising youths, cadets on board a training-ship, were drowned. The boat was under sail at the time, and was...
Category: Articles
Saved from a shipwreck
This photograph captures the moment that our Kinsale and Courtmacsherry Harbour lifeboat volunteers saved 30 people from a sinking training vessel off the Cork coast
Both lifeboat crews were...
Category: Articles