LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fishing Coble and Ayton Castle (1)
NORTH SUNDERLAND and HOLY ISLAND.
—On the morning of the 27th January, five fishermen put off in a coble from North Snnderland, for the purpose of shooting wild ducks on the Fame Islands.
Two of the men...
People and Places
Drawing the crowds The RNLI's 67th national lottery draw took place at the Institution's Poole headquarters on Monday 31 October 1994 when Miss Millvina Dean, aged 82 and the youngest survivor of the Titanic tragedy, drew the winning...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Calendar for 1930
Reproduction of a Painting by Mr. Charles Dixon, R.I.
As in previous years, the Institution is issuing this autumn a Life-boat Calendar for next year. We feel that there is no better way of keeping the work of the...
Category: Advertisement
None (1)
Information was received through the Portpatrick Coastguard at about 7.30 P.M. on the 5th January, that flares had been seen ofl Pladda Point. The Troon Motor Life-boat Sir David Rich- mond and the Girvan Motor Life'-boat Lily Glen,...
Deo Gratias
Ilfracombe, Devon. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 9th of March, 1960, the life-boat Robert and Phemia Brown was launched with the district engineer on board for an engine trial in a moderate easterly wind and a choppy sea. It was...
State-Maintained Life-Boats In Norway
IN nine of the thirteen foreign countries ! which have National Life-boat Services, the Service is voluntarily maintained ! like our own, though, in some cases, with I grants-in-aid from the State. In the remaining five it is...
Category: Articles
Two Saved from Sinking Fishing Boat
Two saved from sinking fishing boat Cullercoat's Atlantic was called out to the fishing boat Cormorant when she began taking water about two miles to the east of the station on 31 March 1996.
It took less than five... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Ex-Coxswains Drowned
ON the 25th of May a fishing coble, the Ricia, from Cloughey, Co. Down, went out lobster-fishing. She had three men on board, Andrew Young, his brother, John Young, and John's son, Andrew Young, junior. They were expected back before...
Category: Services
Aldeburgh Crew Members With Their Rya Certificates
Aldeburgh crew members with their RYA certificates tL-R): Gillingwater, 'son Burns. Alison Foxon. Karl Barber and Adrian Burns. James Cable (not pictured) also achieved a certificate following the course.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rabbit
Margate, Kent. At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 19th of July, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing boat had capsized and her crew of two were in the water one mile off Birchington. Ten minutes...