LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shemara
Eight saved on January night IN THE SMALL HOURS of Thursday January 31, 1985 the coastguard reported to Oban's honorary secretary that a fishing vessel, Shemara, was aground on Lady's Rock and was in urgent need of the lifeboat.The...
Books
• The 1981 edition of Reed's Nautical Almanac (Thomas Reed Publications, £7.95) marks the golden jubilee of this popular publication. There cannot be many lifeboats which do not have a copy of Reed's on the chart table and the...
Category: Articles
Below Right - RNLI Director, Andrew Freemantle,
Below right - RNLI Director, Andrew Freemantle, and lifeboatmen brave the ride and get thoroughly wet in the process!. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Director to Run In London Marathon
RNLI Director, Andrew Freemantle, is taking part in the Flora London Marathon on 18 April to raise funds for the lifeboats.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Etleena, of London
JANUARY 19TH. -SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 8.30 in the morning the naval control reported a vessel in need of help one mile south of the Medway Gate. A strong north-west wind was blowing, with a rough sea and snow squalls. The motor...
Mahelah
APRIL 22ND. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At 5.20 P.M. the Skeldon Hill coastguard telephoned that a barge half a mile away was flying a signal. The weather had been foggy, with a strong easterly wind blowing and a moderate sea,...
Salvenio, of North Shields
JULY 23RD. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 4.10 in the afternoon the Tynemouth coastguard telephoned that a motor boat was in difficulties several miles to the north-east of the Tyne piers. F i v e minutes later the...
Lily, of Scarborough
AUGUST 28TH - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At 8.30 in the morning the coastguard reported that a fishing coble was making distress signals a mile east of Castle Hill. An easterly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat Herbert Joy...
Folda
NOVEMBER 19TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At 10.10 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel near the N.E. Swin Lightship had been attacked by German aeroplanes.
A light S.W. breeze was blowing, with...
A Boat (1)
MARCH 8TH. - GOURDON, KINCARDINESHIRE.
The Gourdon coastguard reported a small boat adrift off Johns-haven, and at 11.10 A.M.. the motor life-boat Margaret Dawson was launched. A light southerly wind was blowing, but there...