LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Eventide (1)
Newbiggin, Blyth, Amble and Tynemouth, Northumberland - On 5th August, 1966, life-boats from these stations carried out a search for the missing fishing coble Eventide whose crew of three - a father and two sons - were all at some time...
Maldon Little Ship Club's
Maldon Little Ship Club's sponsored row, an annual event, raised£1,681 for the Institution when it was held in January, 1985. Competitors braved sub-zero temperatures, ice floes and snow in order to complete the five-mile course on... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Imperial Interest:
Imperial interest: His Imperial Highness Prince Naruhito, grandson of the Emperor of Japan, paid a private visit in July to Moelfre lifeboat station on Anglesey. After meeting station and guild officials, the Prince was taken to sea in the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Many a Slip: Members of the Kent Messenger
Many a slip: Members of the Kent Messenger Social Club heard to utter an oath had to pay for their slips of the tongue. A swear box behind the bar and raffles raised £500 for East Mailing branch and chairman of the Social Club Alan Mole... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shield of Thanks
Gerry and Ingrid Stillman were presented with the Sue Curror memorial shield by Locks Heath and district branch recently, in recognition of all the hard work that they have done for the Institution over the years.
Gerry and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Helping Hand
The Mayor of St. Albans, the Revd Cllr Robert Donald, assisted St. Albans and district branch with a successful collection on 13 December 1996. The collection took place outside Safeways supermarket in Fleetville, St. Albans and raised an... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Small Boat from a Trawler
FEBRUARY 8TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT.
Three R.A.F. men were engaged in salving an aeroplane on the Goodwin Sands. They were working in a small boat from a trawler.
Their boat capsized leaving them stranded on...
Corbon, of Newcastle
About four o'clock on the morning of the 7th April, the steamer Carbon, of New- castle, was observed in an unmanageable state, and drifting about with the tide, in the direction of the Cockle Sand. The weather was hazy and the wind fresh...
Forthcoming Articles
OWING to the space given in this number to the Rye disaster a number of articles which would otherwise have appeared have been held over until the next issue.
They include an article on the Life-boat Service in Iceland...
Category: Articles
None (8)
Aith, Shetland. — At 12.30 A.M. on Christmas Day, 1937, a doctor telephoned that he had been asked to go tothe outlying island of Foula, as the inhabitants were in the grip of an epidemic of influenza, one person being critically ill, and...