LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gemma Craven
Gemma Craven - Ma Larkin in the production of The Darling Buds of May1 at Poole Arts Centre - draws the winning tickets for the 71 st RNLI lottery. With her are Anthony Oliver, the RNLI's deputy head of fundraising and marketing, and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Clacton Second Coxswain Drowned.
Frank Castle, second coxswain of the Clacton-on-Sea life-boat for 19 years, lost his life in a gale in April. The life-boat had gone out to a barge, and the coxswain put Castle, the bowman and the assistant motor mechanic on board to help...
Category: Articles
The Norwegian Oil Tanker Beuston and Dudley Rose
APRIL 9TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. The Norwegian oil-tanker Beuston and the British steamer Dudley Rose sailing in convoy had been attacked by German aeroplanes, and the tanker had been set on fire. The sea was a mass of flame for 150-500 yards...
The Gold Coast Again
THE interest of the natives of the Gold Coast in the life-boat service has on several occasions been mentioned in this journal. The Institution has received letters from them written to it as a general stores, as " the best dealers in...
Category: Correspondence
Horizons
'Currie explores the enormity of the beautiful and the placidness of the wild.
Within this dichotomy he engages with the horizon as a stablising force to which the viewer steers a path - an imaginary line between air... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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In the early afternoon of 18 October 2001, 10 year old Arron McLauchlan was understandably engrossed watching seals on the rocks near Buchaness lighthouse, 1.5km south of Peterhead. But when he realised that the incoming tide had cut him off...
Awards to Honorary Workers
Thanks of Institution on Vellum The thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded to the following honorary secretaries of life-boat stations on their retirement: MR. CHARLES H. ASH, Appledore.
CAPTAIN...
Category: Awards
Crusader
WHITBURN.—On the 22nd November the Thomas Wilson Life-boat brought ashore eight men from the steam-tug Crusader, of Sunderland, which had stranded on Whitburn Rocks during foggy weather. The eight men had gone on board to try to get her...
Fishing Cobles (1)
Again on the 20th January the Staithes fishing-cobles went out to their usual fishing-ground. During the day the sea became very strong, with heavy snowshowers, and when the boats returned at about 4 P.M. they found it was impossible to land...
August
SOUTHEND, ESSEX.—During a strong gale of wind from the S.W., and a heavy sea, at 11.30 A.M. on the 24th October the brig August, of Griefswold, Prussia, signalled for assistance, having lost her masts and anchors. The Boys of England...