LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Relief D Class
Relief D class A 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat to be used in the relief fleet was handed over and dedicated on the evening of Wednesday July 17, 1985, at the RNLl's Poole depot. She was the gift of the Ancient Order of Foresters,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mary
BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.—The lugger Mary, of Buckle, was taken off the beach, at about midnight on the 30th April, in order to proceed to Gluny Harbour to be fitted out for the west coast herring fishery. A whole gale suddenly sprung up from...
Arosette
Newhaven: At 2003 on Monday July 3 HM Coastguard informed Newhaven lifeboat station that the German coaster Arosette, two miles south of Beachy Head, had broadcast a 'mayday' calling for immediate help. Newhaven's 44ft Waveney...
A Steamer (3)
JANUARY 26TH. - TOBERMORY, ARGYLLSHIRE. A steamer had been reported ashore on Tiree, but the wind was at hurricane force and compelled the life-boat to heave to, and later she returned to Tobermory, as the weather was getting worse. The life...
Casquet
YACHT TOWED AFTER ANCHOR CHAIN CLEARED Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 7.45 on the evening of the 18th June, 1962, the coastguard at Penmon informed the honorary secretary that an unidentified yacht was anchored about one mile south-by-east of the...
That's Life
Many years ago there was the-launching of the Mumbles/hearse Before the boathouse and slipway were built, the RNLI owned two horses to haul the Mumbles boat on a carriage over the wide mud flats into the water. One day the local undertaker...
Category: Articles
Thrive
A t about noon on the 24th March a sudden squall sprang up in Fraserburgh Bay. This developed later into a N.W. gale with a heavy sea. Shortly after 1 P.M. the harbour-master tele- phoned that the Fraserburgh and Cairnbulg fishing fleets...
Fifi
YACHT POOPED AND FLOODED IN HEAVY BREAKERS Rhyl, Flintshire. On Saturday the 17th of August, 1963, the yacht Fiji, of New Brighton, was bound for the Menai Straits with a crew of two, but she was overtaken by bad weather and decided to make...
Thanks for Help
Following the service by the Swanage life-boat, recorded elsewhere in this issue, the secretary of the Swanage branch received a letter of appreciation, the opening paragraphs of which are quoted below, together with a donation.
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Category: Correspondence
St. Ambrose
Margate, Kent.—At 11.7 on the morn- ing of the 14th of August, 1957, the coastguard telephoned to pass on a report that a cabin cruiser north of East Margate buoy was burning a flare and flashing a light. At 11.20 the life-boat North...