LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Handsome Pair!
Two of the collectors from the B irmingham branch attracted the attention of shoppers in the City Centre by wearing RNLI equipment and collecting next to an Atlantic 21 lifeboat.
The two collectors were part of a large team... - View image in PDF
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Geziena
Whitby, Yorkshire.—About 8.30 on the night of the 5th of November, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that the motor ship Geziena, of Rotterdam, which the life-boat had escorted to the harbour the previous afternoon, had parted her moorings in...
Photo
I thought you might like to have this photograph (see below) of my husband, Mr A. D. van der Maas, to add to your collection of photos of people working to raise money for the RNLI. He weaves and sells these rope mats and does other ropework... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Maragret Coldwell. Coriven
During a strong gale from the N.W., on the 11th November, the schooner Margaret Caldwell, of Port- rush, was at anchor in the Skerries Roads, when the barque Convert, of Londonderry, running for the same anchorage, got foul of her, and...
A Sailboard
Eastbourne: While the station's 37ft 6in Rather class lifeboat, Duke of Kent, was out on exercise on the morning of Sunday September 9, 1984, a sailboarder was seen from the shore to be in difficulty and the Coastguard asked...
Clyde Crusader
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 1.20 •early on the morning of the 17th of .September, 1958, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that a vessel was ashore below Tynemouth •Castle, fifty yards north of Tyne north pier. Visibility was...
Lyra
Hartlepool, Durham.—At 9.52 on the night of the 10th of July, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the police had reported that a vessel had run ashore to the northward. At 10.6 the life-boat The Princess Royal, Civil Service No. 7 was...
Boston Valiant
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At 5.45 on the afternoon of the 2nd of October, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that the trawler Boston Valiant, outward bound from Fleetwood to the fishing grounds,had asked for a doctor to meet her in Ramsey Bay as the...
Yellow Brick Rowed
Maldon Little Ship Club held their annual sponsored row on New Years Day which raised £9,000 for Maldon and District branch.. - View image in PDF
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Fishing Boats
Several of the fishing cobles belonging to Scar- borough were overtaken when at sea by bad weather on the 14th January. All the boats with the exception, of one, which was named the Queensbury, suc- ceeded in getting into safety, but as it...