LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Elsie Mabel
DRAGGING HER ANCHOR At 9.30 p.m. on ioth May, 1965, the coast life-saving service reported that a fishing vessel was in difficulties off the coast north-west of Galway Bay. The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson put to sea at 10 p.m. in a...
A Converted Ship's Boat
TOW FOR CONVERTED SHIP'S BOAT Barrow, Lancashire. At 10.12 on the night of the 9th June, 1963, the Walney Island lighthouse keeper rang up the coxswain to say that three people in a small boat were signalling with a flag a mile...
Christina
TOW FOR FISHING BOAT WITH FIVE ABOARD Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 22nd June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen coming from a converted ship's boat a mile...
D.U.K.W. (1)
Cromer, Norfolk - At 3.15 p.m. on nth December, 1966, two flares were reported from a D.U.K.W. which was about a mile off Cromer east beach. The No. 2 life-boat William Henry and Mary King was launched at 3.27 in a light south westerly wind...
Northern Queen, of Lowestoft (1)
Aldeburgh, and Lowes toft, Suffolk.—On the morning of the 14th February, 1938, the Aldeburgh motor life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched at 8.30 A.M. on information from the Aldeburgh coastguard that a fishing smack was in distress several...
A Vessal Called Seierskrandsen
In re- sponse to a message on the 3rd August stating that a vessel was ashore on the Loe Bar, the Life-boat John Francis White was launched at 8.15 P.M. The Life-boat proceeded to the bar and met the men belonging to the stranded vessel in...
Amy II
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 10.45 on the night of the 25th of August, 1950, the Gorleston coastguard passed on a message from the British ship Cornea. She had the Dutch yacht Amy II in tow, disabled by an...
Willpower
Over the years the RNLI's dependence on money left to it in legacies has helped keep the Institution buoyant, providing a regular backbone to the income raised by volunteers and Shoreline members and enabling it to build and maintain a...
Category: Articles
Your Letters
Whilst reading the winter 1999/00 issue of the lifeboat, I came across the piece about the refurbished lifeboat Queen Victoria which was said to be thought as the oldest RNLI lifeboat in existence.
It is not the oldest boat...
Category: Correspondence
A Boat
MARCH 3RD. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At about 5 P.M. an army officer and two non-commissioned officers launched an old boat, intending to punt in shallow water. They had not allowed for the strong ebbing tide and a fresh S.E...