LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fundraisers
A bridge too far!Bridge! Photo Blackpool Evening Gazette Four thousand walkers crossed the River Wyre in Lancashire via the new Shard Bridge - and managed to raise £4,000 for the RNLI! The idea for the sponsored walk, before the...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
LLANDUDNO, CARNARVONSHIRE.—At 1.45 P.M. on the 1st January a signal of distress was shown by two men in a fishing-boat two miles off from land in Llandudno Bay. The men, father and son, had gone out to their fishing lines and were overtaken...
Category: Services
The Upper Photograph Shows the Moment the Slings Were Released
The Upper Photograph Shows The Moment The Slings Were Released. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Medallists:
The medallists: (I. to r.) Coxswain/Mechanic Malcolm Macdonald, Stornoway; Coxswain/ Mechanic Ian Johnson, Troon; Coxswain/Mechanic Charles Howry, Sheerness; Helmsman Roger Trigg, Southwold; Helmsman Alan Coster, Lymington; Helmsman Frank... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Mignonette.
BROOKE.—On the 19th January at 8 P.M.
the coastguard at this station discovered that a ship was on the rocks at Sudmore.
The crew of the Life-boat George and Anne were summoned as soon as possible, and...
The Swift
At 1 A.M. on the 14th June, during a moderate W.S.W. wind and overcast weather, signal guns and rockets were observed from the Gull Lightship, and a flare was also seen in the direction of theGoodwin Sands. The Life-boat Bradford and the...
The Curlew
AN INEXPERIENCED CREW Stromness, Orkneys.—At midnight on the 15th of July, 1947, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that the motor boat Curlew, of Kirkwall, had left Rousay at about nine o'clock for Kirk- wall but that nothing had been...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
MONTROSE, FORFARSHIRE.—On the evening of the 1st January one of the fishermen reported that a vessel was showing a light, evidently in close proximity to the Annat Bank. The Life-boatmen were at once assembled and the No. 1 Life-beat Sarah...
Category: Services
The Tougue Lightvessel, the Princes Light Ship and The Fusiler
THE following is the Coxswain's report of the important services rendered on the night of 3rd Dec. last, by the Ramsgate life-boat, to the passengers of the emigrant ship Fusi- lier, of London; and to the crew of the ship Denierara, of...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st Oct. To the 31st Dec. 1878
ISLE OF WHITHORN.—On the 2nd Octo-ber, the smack Swallow was observed off: Borough Head dismasted, and in danger of being driven on the rocks. The Whithorn Life-boat Charlie Peek put off to her assistance, but before she could get near the...
Category: Services