LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Helsingborg
The steamer Helsingborg, of Helsingborg, bound from Sweden to Blyth in ballast, stranded in the early morning of the 18th February on the rocks about a quarter of a mile to the south of Cress- well Coastguard Station. Information reached the...
RNLI News
Newspoint In Reserve The financial reserves held by charities came underthe media spotlight recently as a result of a television pro- gramme on Channel 4.
The programme asked whether it was wrong for charities with large...
Category: Articles
The Anstruther Lifeboat, the Doctors, Is a 37-Foot Oakley
The Anstruther lifeboat, The Doctors, is a 37-foot Oakley.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shrimp Boats
At 9 A.M. On the 2nd August a heavy squall from N.E. accompanied by heavy rain blew over Lowestof fc and caught the fleet of shrimp boats whilst at sea. As their position was one of considerable danger the No. 2 Life-boat Stock Exchange...
December (1)
GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE. At about 9.30 in the mornmg of the 7th October, 1942, a military aeroplane crashed into the sea about four miles, N.N.W. of Girvan. The sea was calm, with a light westerly wind. The Fraserburgh motor fishing boat Primrose,...
Category: Services
Dangerous Gas on Blazing Fishing Vessel
Tynemouth's Arun class lifeboat George and Olive Turner was called to the aid of the fishing vessel Kalisto which caught fire on 15 September 1990.
The two crew had jumped overboard and been airlifted ashore, but... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
JOINT RESPONSE
A swimmer gets into danger off the coast of Northern Ireland – just as local RNLI lifeguards are about to clock off for the night
Wednesday 27 June, and another day was drawing to a close on Portrush’s East Strand Beach....
Category: Articles
Cover Picture
by Campbell MacCallum The Mersey class lifeboat Her Majesty The Queen taking part in the Lord Mayor'sShowon 13 November 1993.
Among those aboard her are the BBC TV's 'Blue Peter' presenters and the young... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sulby
Early on the morning of the 25th April a tele- phone message was received from the postmistress at Machrihanish that a steamer was sounding her siren and sending up rockets about four miles south of Machrinhanish. A strong S.E. breeze was...
Before Performing the Ceremony Commander Ralph Swann Was Presented By Former Weymouth Coxswain Mr F J Palmer With a Framed Photograph O/Tony Vanderv
. . . before performing the ceremony, Commander Ralph Swann was presented by former Weymouth coxswain Mr F. J. Palmer with a framed photograph o/Tony Vandervell in Portland Race. With them are Lieut.- Commander B. F. Morris, honorary... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs