LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Alpheus Marshall
BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE of WIGHT.
— On the 9th February, the barque Alpheus Marshall, of Digby, N.S., bound from New York to London, with a general cargo, went ashore on Atherfield Ledge during a fog. The wind was blowing...
Michel Swenden
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 12.36 on the afternoon of the 15th of January, 1954, the coastguard reported that a wireless message had been intercepted from a ship, stating that she was drifting on to rocks between South Stack and Skerries. At 1.2...
Life-Boat Postage Stamps
THE General Post Office is issuing a set of postage stamps to mark the ninth international life-boat conference being held in Edinburgh in June 1963. The stamps will be in the denominations of 2|d., 4d. and Is. 6d. and will be on sale...
Category: Advertisement
Brothers
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 10.30 P.M. on the 29th May, 1938, the coastguard reported that the weather was getting bad and that several small fishing boats were at sea.
By 11 P.M. a...
A Boat (3)
Four lifeboats in search for missing anglers Lifeboats from Whitstable, Margate, Sheerness and Walton and Frinton were involved in a massive search for a man and his 12-year-old son after they failed to return in their 14ft boat following a...
Dauntless
LOBSTER BOAT AGROUND ON SHEEP ROCK Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 10.26 on the morning of Wednesday the 28th of August, 1963, the Southend coastguard informed the assistant honorary secretary that the Portpatrick coastguard had reported the...
Rhuddlan Castle
RAMSGATE.—At midnight on the 30th of March signals were fired by the Gull and Goodwin Lightships, and a flare was seen on the North Sand Head. The Bradford Life-boat stationed at Ramsgate put out in tow of the harbour steam-tug...
A Speed Boat (1)
Blown offshore ON THE EVENING OF Thursday July 5, 1984, Clyde Coastguard received a 999 call after a small speedboat had been seen, broken down about three quarters of a mile off Cowan Rock, near Girvan.
Her crew of two men...
Unsung Heroes: Steve Robinson
Kinghorn Lifeboat Station’s tractor driver tells us what it’s like to be a part of the RNLI family
How are you involved with the RNLI?
I was senior helm, retiring in 1995. In 2014 I rejoined as tractor driver....
Category: Articles
Daisy and Young Kenneth
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland. — At midday on the 4th February there was a very heavy sea on the bar, and, as fishing boats could be seen making for harbour, the motor life-boat Westmorland was launched at 12.40 P.M., in case her help was...