LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Motor Fishing Vessels Ocean Venture, Lead Us, and Wakeful
Whitby, Yorkshire - At 12.40 p.m.
on 5th January, 1967, news was received that three local fishing vessels were still at sea and the weather was deteriorating rapidly with very heavy seas breaking at the approach to the...
May (1)
MAY MEETING PORTLOE, CORNWALL. At 2.40 in the morning of the 14th April, 1941, the coastguard watchman saw an aeroplane make a forced landing on the sea. Her engines had failed. He immediately called on two fishermen, who put out in a boat....
Category: Services
Your Shout
your shout Dear Editor, My wife and I were privileged recently to spend a day visiting RNLI Headquarters at Poole. Every aspect that we saw or heard made us deeply proud of the Lifeboat service and full of admiration both for the people and...
Category: Correspondence
Fishermen Return Rewards.
Five fishermen of Silloth, Cumberland, as they came back from their fishing, saw an aeroplane crash in the sea, went to its help, and rescued the airmen.
The Institution sent them rewards, but they returned them, saying:...
Category: Articles
Standard
About noon on tbo Gth August, during a strong W.N.W. gale and rough sea, the Coastguard reported that the ketch Standard, of Fowey, was dragging her anchors and was in danger on a lee shore in Dublin Bay. The Life-boat Dimleary was promptly...
Spirit
PAGe tItLe sPIRIt It’s a kind of magic Over 115 years after the first rattle of an RnLi collecting tin in manchester, Rory stamp discovers how young musicians are ensuring that the charity still strikes a chord in the city ‘there’s a great...
Category: Articles
Launching on Exercise
This life-boat is one of the light self-righting type, 35 feet 6 inches by 8 feet 10 inches.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Flamborough, Yorkshire, Life-Boat Towing Into Bridlington Harbour the Fishery Research Vessel Trellina
The Flamborough, Yorkshire, life-boat towing into Bridlington harbour the fishery research vessel Trellina which had her nets entangled round her propeller off Flamborough Head in July, 1970.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bookshelf
Lifeboat station histories The History of the Penmon and Beaumaris Lifeboats by Jeff Morris published by the author The northern end of the Menai Straits is one of the areas where changing times and use of the sea has led to considerable...
Category: Articles