LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Speed Boat
Criccieth, Caernarvonshire - At 11.25 a.m. on 2yth June, 1966, a speedboat was reported adrift in the bay. The conditions were too rough for a small shore-based craft to proceed. The lifeboat Robert Lindsay was launched at 11.35 a.m. in a...
Stars of a 'Going for a Song' Evening Arranged By Ashtead and Leatherhead Branches Last November Were (I to R) Richard Baker As Chairman With Contestants Mollie Sug
Stars of a 'Going for a Song' evening arranged by Ashtead and Leatherhead branches last November were (I. to r.) Richard Baker as chairman with contestants Mollie Sugden and Bill Pertwee. Two experts, Brian Clarke and Alastair... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 9th of September, 1957, the coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy had capsized a mile and a half off Trimingham. At 5.32 the no. 1 life-boat Henry Blogg was launched in a slight sea. There...
A Yacht (2)
New Quay, Cardiganshire-At 12.38 p.m. on 22nd May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a sailing boat was in difficulties threequarters of a mile off Lochtyn Island.
The life-boat St. Albans was...
A Lot of Bottle
Each year since 1946, a local pub in New Quay, Dyfed, has made a collection for the RNLI with a huge bottle on the bar.
Together with his wife, David Rees, one of the few remaining crew of the William Cantrell Ashley, the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
RNLI through a lens
Howard Evans, a fundraiser from Weston-super-Mare, is the 2009 RNLI Photographer of the Year. His photo, shown on the front cover, was taken at the station’s open day and demonstrates the cruel conditions under which lifeboat crew often find...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, Founded In 1824, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, FOUNDED IN 1824, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
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A Fishing Boat (8)
OCTOBER 1ST. - PETERHEAD, AHERDEENSHIRE.
A fishing boat had been reported overdue, but it was found that she had put into Aberdeen. - Rewards, £13 3s. 6d..
A Vessel (2)
Holy Island and North Sunderland, Northumberland.
—Early on the morning of the 28th February the coastguard reported to the Holy Island life-boat station that a vessel was in distress in Goswick Bay. A north-easterly...
Ros Corr
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 12.40 on the afternoon of the 12th of October, 1953.
the Civic Guard at Portmagee reported that the fishing boat Ros Corr, of Dublin, with a crew of six, needed help seven miles north of Bray Head....