LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Whilst reading the winter 1999/00 issue of the lifeboat, I came across the piece about the refurbished lifeboat Queen Victoria which was said to be thought as the oldest RNLI lifeboat in existence.

It is not the oldest boat... - View image in PDF

HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.—The ketch Mary Tweedlie, of Berwick, was seen running before the wind, tinder bare poles, at 3 P.M., on the 6th March, 1883, during a fearful gale of wind from N. to N.E. and a very heavy sea, the whole bar and...

PENMON.—On the 3rd July the schooner Broughty Castle, of Bamsey, Jaden with salt, stranded on the Causeway Bock in a strong N.W. breeze. The Life-boat Christopher Brown went to her assistance and attempted to heave her off, but the hawser...

Ramsey, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.

•—Just before half past five in the evening of the 6th of January, 1948, the coastguard informed the Ramsey life-boat station that the motor vessel Teasel was six miles east of the...

CULDAFF, Co. DONEGAL.—On Sunday, the llth February, as a flag of distress was seen flying on Innistrahull Island, efforts were made on the mainland to ascertain by signals what was the matter, but these failed owing to the state of-the...

IN 1947 the students of the Aberystwyth University College gave the Institution £325 from the proceeds of their annual "Rag-Week." This year the whole week was held on behalf of the Life-boat Service, and raised £1,400....

Launches 28 Lives rescued None

NOVEMBER 1ST. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.

At 7.21 in the evening, the Wyke Regis coastguard reported a vessel aground on Shambles Bank. She was the Swedish tanker Ariston, of...

THE Institution is again issuing in the autumn a life-boat calendar for the New Year and a life-boat Christmas card.

The calendar will have on it a reproduction in colours of a picture by Mr. Charles Dixon, R.I., of the...