LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
High Seas
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
Scarborough -- North Division The boathouse for Scarborough's Mersey and D class is right on the town's seafront, tucked into the corner of the beach at South Bay...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
ON 3rd November, 1910, the following notice appeared in the Press :— With a view to economy and to unity of effort and control, the work of collecting money for the Royal National Life-boat Insti- tution hitherto done in certain directions...
Category: Articles
Day Dawn, of Peterhead
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 9.50 A.M.
on Tuesday, the 26th October, 1937, a man reported that the motor fishing boat Day Dawn, of Peterhead, was near the rocks at South Head with her engine broken down, and that she was...
GIVE IT A GO: STARGAZING
When’s the last time you looked up at the night sky? RNLI fundraiser and amateur astronomer Simon Perks tells us how we can all wonder at the stars above
Simon Perks’s dad had a cool job at sea. As a boy, Simon was...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Wireless Programme
MK. EDGAR H. JOHNSON, the District Organizing Secretary for the North of England, arranged a special programme for the British Broadcaatmg Corporation, called " My Life-boat Programme," which, on. 4th May, was broadcast from the...
Category: Articles
An Admiralty Trawler
FEBRUARY 3RD. - RAMSGATE, KENT.
An Admiralty trawler had been bombed during an air raid, but she had sunk before the life-boat could reach her, and a naval vessel had picked up three survivors of her crew and the body of...
A Motor Yacht
SEPTEMBER 30TH. - NEWCASTLE, CO.
DOWN. A motor yacht had broken down in Dundrum Bay and had burnt flares, but she had been driven ashore before the lifeboat could reach her and her crew were able to land. The yacht was...
A Raft
DECEMBER 2ND. - CLOVELLY, DEVON.
A ship’s boat had been reported at sea, but the life-boat only found an empty raft which she could not bring in owing to the rough sea.
- Rewards, £17 4s....
Albert
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—On the morning of the 8th of March, 1956, the coast- guard reported that a body had been ?een on the north shore. It was believed to be the body of one of six men who had put off in the rowing boat Albert the night...
Edward Heath Autographs a Cook Book for Miss Great Britain Sue Cuff of Morecambe
Edward Heath autographs a Cook Book for Miss Great Britain, Sue CuffofMorecambe.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs