LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Contrast
SCARBOROUGH.—The fishing smack Contrast, of Scarborough, while making for the harbour, OH the morning of the 21st March, during a strong gale of wind from the N.N.E., was struck by very heavy seas, which washed her fishing gear adrift, and...
Tynewood
At 3 p.m. on 5th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that there was a sick man on board the motor vessel Tynewood. The life-boat City of Bradford HI was launched with a doctor on board at 4.20 in a light south...
Flagstaff Memorial:
Flagstaff memorial: The Bishop of Truro, the Right Reverend Peter Mumford, blesses the flagstaff mounted in Truro Cathedral and made as a memorial to the lifeboatmen who died in the Penlee lifeboat disaster of December 1981. The wood for the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Port St. Mary, and Port Erin, Isle of Man. At 11.10 on the morning of the 23rd of December, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Port St. Mary that fire had broken out on the lighthouse on Chickens Rock. It had been...
Dawn Anne and a Dinghy
Capsized dinghy ON THE AFTERNOON of Wednesday May 11, 1983, both lifeboats stationed at Eastbourne were launched to help the fishing vessel Dawn Anne, in difficulties with a broken fuel line 1 '/2 miles east of the lifeboat station; she...
Roycroft
ABKLOW.—At daybreak on the 8th July, 1876, the weather being moderate, information was received from the Coastguard that a barque was ashore near " Jack's- hole," Arklow Banks. The Life-boat Oat- Pensioner was launched...
Brighton 175
RNLI lifeboats have been operating from Brighton for 175 years.
Jon Jones finds out how things have changed there over that time… It is true to say that over the years the RNLI, as it celebrates its 175th anniversary, has...
Category: Articles
Mersey
DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—On the 2nd April, while a strong breeze was blowing from the S., the schooner Mersey, of Dublin, bound from Waterford, in ballast, for Point of Ayre, anchored near the rocks outside Conister. She was then in a dangerous...
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St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At 8.40 On the night of the 16th of December, 1949, the Trinity House Superintendent, Holyhead, asked the life-boat to land a sick man from the South Bishop lighthouse. At 8.45 the life-boat crew assembled and...
Bryan Gerrard,
Bryan Gerrard, who served the RNLI first as a boat mechanic then as fleet staff coxswain/mechanic. Mr Gerrard worked for the Institution for 27 years..
Category: Obituaries