LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Calendar and Christmas Card
The Calendar.
THE Institution is again issuing a life- boat calendar and a Christmas card.
The calendar will have on it a reproduction in colours of a picture by the late Mr. Charles Dixon, R.I., of the...
Category: Advertisement
Marne
AU G U S T 3 1 S T . - C U L L E R C O A T S , NORTHUMBERLAND. The Dutch motor vessel Marne, of Rotterdam, had struck a mine and sank a quarter of a mile S.E. of Tynemouth Piers, but no survivors were found, and later it was learned that two...
A Punt and Mohawk
Sunderland, Durham.—At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 21st of March, 1954, the Whitburn police told the coast- guard that three boys were adrift in a punt a mile east of Souter lighthouse.
The coastguard telephoned the life-...
Front Cover
Appledore's Tyne class George Gibson shows her way of dealing with a breaking sea on the port's notorious bar. - View image in PDF
by Rick Tomlinson. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Local Committees
An especial feature of the National Ship- wreck Institution, is the establishment of Local Committees for the management of their boats. As stated in the first number of this Journal, the Parent Institution looks to earnest, hearty...
Category: Articles
Virginia
FISHING BOAT MISSING FOR FOUR DAYS Skegness, Lincolnshire.—The fishing- smack Virginia, of Boston, Lincoln- shire, with a crew of three, which had gone to sea on January 1st, 1947, had not returned. Aeroplanes searched for her and radar was...
Comfort, Daisy and Widgeon
On the morning of 12th May, a moderate S.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. Three local fishing boats—Comfort, Daisy and Widgeon—were at sea, and as it was seen that they could only cross the harbour bar at a big risk, it was...
Fishing Boats
JOHNSHAVEN, KINCARDINESHIRE.—The wind and sea having increased while some fishing-boats belonging to Gourdon were at sea on the 31st Jan., 1895, it was dangerous for them to attempt to return to their harbour. They were therefore warned off,...
Functional Clothing
Functional Airflow" Jacket and Overtrousers Royal National Life-Boat Institution in 1471 the RNLI adopted Functional for Offshore Stations The clothing has been well received by our crews who operate in severe conditions for prolonged...
Category: Advertisement
Two Fishing Cobles (1)
When the cobles belonging to Filey were returning from the fishing grounds on the 7th April they were overtaken by snow-storms and a strong north-easterly wind, caus- ing a very rough sea in the tideway at the Brigg End. Great anxiety was...