LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Amble Harbour Day
Amble harbour day gained magnificent support from the local community with over £5,000 resulting from the branch and guild's efforts. The North East Windsurfers' Association raised over £2,000 of this total with their... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats In December, 1950, January and February, 1951. 135 Lives Rescued
DURING December life-boats went out on service 40 times and rescued 60 lives.
PROPELLER FOULED, ANCHOR CHAIN BROKEN Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At five o'clock on the evening of the 1st of December, 1950, distress signals...
Category: Services
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In Development
The RNLI’s naval engineers are developing a new class of all-weather lifeboat, currently codenamed FCB2 (fast carriage boat 2). The FCB2 will replace the Mersey class lifeboat, and the first is expected on station in 2013.
Category: Articles
November
NOVEMBER Launches 71. Lives rescued 91.
NOVEMBER 1ST. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. Wind and sea had got up in the morning while several fishing boats were out, and by eleven o’clock a strong easterly gale was blowing, with a...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats In March, April and May, 1951. 79 Lives Rescued
DURING March, life-boats went out on service 45 times and rescued 10 lives.
A LISTING TANKER New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 7.18 on the night of the 1st of March, 1951, the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board tele- phoned that the S...
Category: Services
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
NEWCASTLE, DUNDRUM BAY. — The locality of Dundrum Bay, on the east coast of Ireland, has, during the last three or four years, been the site of numerous wrecks, lying as it does at the entrance of the channel between the Isle of Man and the...
Category: Articles
The James and Catherine MacFarlane, a 36-Foot Oakley Reserve Life-Boat, Was on Display at Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, in July, 1966, While on its Way to the Royal Show
The James and Catherine MacFarlane, a 36-foot Oakley reserve life-boat, was on display at Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, in July, 1966, while on its way to the Royal Show.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Kenneth William and Mor-Nita
Eleven hour escort TWO COMMERCIAL FISHING VESSELS, Kenneth William of Brancaster and Mor- Nita of Wells were at sea off Wells on the morning of Friday November 21, 1986 in a north-easterly storm force 10 and in very rough and heavy seas.<...
The End of the Beginning
On 30 November 1993 the Mersey class lifeboat Freddie Cooperarrived at Aldeburgh to mark the beginning of a new era - an era in which there are fast lifeboats at every one of the RNLI's stations.
It was also...
Category: Articles