LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Cobles (1)
STAITHES, YORKSHIRE. — While the fishing cobles were out on the 8th February, a strong breeze from the E.N.E. sprung up, the sea became very rough and the weather being thick it was feared that some casualty might happen. The Life-boat...
Pedalo Power
An eight-hour pedalo trip organised by the Aylsham and District branch, North Norfolk, raised £900 for lifeboats. Members and friends of the branch covered the 25-mile stretch along the River Bure. The sponsored event was supported by... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fifty Medals for Gallantry (7)
On the 19th November, 1939, the Clacton-on-Sea life-boat rescued the crew of two of the smack Charlotte Ellen of Tollesbury, and the crew of two of the barge Lorna, of London.
COXSWAIN CHARLES R. ELLIS was awarded the...
Category: Articles
Increased Rewards
THE Institution has substantially increased the annual retaining fees which it pays to the officers of its life-boats, and others who have regular duties to perform. The coxswain's fee, which varied from £24 to £32 a year...
Category: Articles
Books
Some recent publications reviewed Mumbles Lifeboat by Carl Smith, published by Sou'wester Books at £3.50 ISBN 09515281 06 The history of the Mumbles lifeboat station is a long and gallant one, and the author has captured both the...
Category: Articles
Feature: a Pier Without Equal
A pier without equal It was the collision of the Bowbelle and Marchioness in 1989 and the resulting 51 deaths that led the Government to ask the RNLI to provide a lifeboat service on the Thames. Now the RNLI's busiest lifeboat station of...
Category: Articles
Your Letters
More Lifeboats at Dunkirk In your Autumn issue lifeboat enthusiast Jeff Morris states that 19 lifeboats from the RNLI attended the evacuation of Dunkirk during 1940. He is right to say that 19 lifeboats went to Dunkirk but wrong in thus...
Category: Correspondence
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE twenty-fourth Annual Meeting of this Institution was held on the 8th May last at Willis's Rooms, His Grace the DDKE OF MARLBOROUGH, President of the Society, in the Chair. The noble President, with great clearness, in an excellent...
Category: Meetings
Provider and Silver Coquet
Amble, Northumberland. At 8.50 a.m. on ist November, 1965, the coastguard warned the honorary secretary that two fishing cobles, which were overdue, might be in need of assistance.
It was decided at 10.15 to send the...
A Surfboard
A severe blow Late afternoon at Polzeath, Cornwall, on 28 August 2005 RNLI lifeguards spotted a young woman being helped out of the black and white flagged area. While surfing, the woman had taken a blow to the back of her head from a...