LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Niblick
DECEMBER 21ST. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 2.25 in the afternoon a message was received from the coastguard that a trawler had gone aground on the Newcome Sands, and ten minutes later the motor lifeboat Michael Stephens was...
Letters
Ecclesiastical point I have been interested in the correspondence about Shoreline. I would leave things as they are. Certainly I would not want to have Lifeboat Supporters Club as a name because although we do not go to sea those of us who...
Category: Correspondence
Your Letters
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...
Category: Correspondence
In Memoriam. Admiral John Ross Ward
BY the death, which took place on the- 23rd June last, of the late Admiral WARD „ in his 77th year, the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION has lost a good friend and a devoted officer. From the time he joined the Committee in February 1852...
Category: Obituaries
Langfonn
NORWEGIAN APPEAL Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. At ii p.m. on 5th June, 1964, a shipping agency in Stornoway told the honorary secretary that a radio message received via Oban Radio had stated that a Norwegian vessel was making for Stornoway...
Rohilla Memorial Service
Whitby On October 30, 1974, a memorial service was held at Whitby to commemorate the sinking of the hospital ship Rohilla, which ran on to a dangerous reef of rocks at Saltwick Nab, near Whitby, in 1914. Whitby No. 2 lifeboat saved 35 people...
Category: Articles
Guillemot
, Northumber- land.—Ort the 22nd December the Grimsby steam trawler Guillemot stranded, and three men of the crew were rescued by the Boulmer Motor Life-boat. The Holy Island No. 1 Motor Life-boat was also launched.
The...
New Ways of Raising Money
Early last year the Kidderminster ladies' life-boat guild gave each member 5s.
and told them to increase it. In September it was reported that over £80 had been raised in this way.
The Little Ship...
Category: Donations
An Aeroplane (143)
OCTOBER 28TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
At about 2 A.M. the coastguard telephoned that a British bomber had crashed n e a r S k e g n e s s P i e r . A l i g h t , v a r i a b l e northerly wind was blowing, and the sea was...
Grace Darling Centenary. Opening of a Memorial Museum at Bamburgh
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 137 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 28 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to September 30th, 1938 .... 65,849
Grace Darling...
Category: Articles