LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Courrier Du Nord
On the 2nd De- cember, the French brig Courrier du Nord went ashore on the ridge outside St. Ives Pier. She was first seen in the offing at ten o'clock A.M., standing to the westward in a very heavy sea, the wind blowing a strong gale at...
Bluebird
Margate. Kent.——At 12.55 in the early morning of the 6th of November, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht at anchor half a mile north-west of the coastguard station was making heavy weather. There was a rough sea, and a strong north...
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Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 7.45 on the evening of the llth of September, 1954, the Cowes Marine Superintendent of Trinity House rang up to ask if the life-boat would take a doctor to the Nab lighthouse to attend the assistant keeper. No...
Angus Rose
Montrose, Angus - At 8.25 a.m. on I3th January, 1967, a fishing vessel was reported on the rocks between Scurdyness and Usan. The life-boat The Good Hope was launched at 8.45 in a gentle west south westerly wind and a slight sea. It was four...
Festive funds for new Shannon class
Thank you for your kind generosity over the festive season. We had an incredible response to our 2016 Christmas Appeal – you gave £1.3M in total. £750,000 of it is being added to a generous legacy, to fund a new Shannon class...
Category: Articles
Feature: Going for Gold
Not only is The Lifeboat College a centre of excellence for lifeboat crews and staff - it provides a base for other organisations to learn about the RNLI's work. Regional Education Officer Dave Cooling looks back on a lively week when 14...
Category: Articles
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Plymouth, Devon. At 12.10 on the afternoon of the 21st of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police had asked if the life-boat could take off a family of five who were stranded on Renney rocks off Heybrook...
Letters
Letters...
Shoreline Service I read with interest the report on page 10 of the winter issue of THE LIFEBOAT, concerning the beaching of the Prince Ivanhoe at Horton, off the Gower, South Wales. I was on holiday and happened...
Category: Correspondence
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Port St. Mary, Isle of Man —27th March, 1938. A keeper on the Chicken Rock Lighthouse had been taken ill, but was taken off by a fishing boat.— Rewards, £11 4s..
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Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, Aberyst- wyth, Cardiganshire, Barmouth, Meri- onethshire, and Pwllheli, Caernarvon- shire.
At 3.19 in the afternoon of the 5th of May, 1952, the Fishguard coast- guard telephoned to the Fishguard...