LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bed Month Success
During national bed month, David Phipp house furnisher of Ferndown in Dorset, chose to support the RNLI by donating £10 for every bed purchased in March.
At the end of the promotion Ronny Spurr, treasurer of Ferndown... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Big Swim
The Basingstoke branch of the British Sub-Aqua Club held a sponsored swim in aid of the lifeboats and raised £1,169 - the largest single donation received by the RNLI Basingstoke branch.
Trophies were presented to the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A British Steamer
DEC. 4TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A British steamer had been sunk by enemy action ten miles east of Withernsea, but when the life-boat arrived she found no one on board, and it was thought that the crew had been rescued by...
Depaky II
Ramsgate, Kent - At 5.33 p.m. on I2th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yacht half a mile east of the North Goodwin buoy was firing flares. The Swedish ship Buenas Aires was standing by until the life-boat arrived....
Moulin Rouge
Moelfre's Tyne class \ifeboatRobertand Violet was called out to the 27ft yacht Moulin Rouge on 12 July 1991. The yacht was in difficulties seven miles NE of Moelfre Island in rough seas and a SSW wind of Force 7 to...
Lionel Lukin - Lifeboat Inventor
Denied credit during his lifetime, Lionel Lukin has since been acknowledged as 'the first who built a Life Boat'. To commemorate the inventor's 250th birthday last May, assistant public relations officer Robin Sharp relates the...
Category: Articles
A Canoe (1)
Blackpool, Lancashire. At 6.10 p.m.
on 13th August, 1965, the police notified the honorary secretary that a boy was in difficulties in a small canoe south of central pier. The IRB was at once launched in a moderate...
Confid
Humber, Yorkshire.—Shortly before midnight on the 19th March, 1938, the motor vessel Confid, of Rotterdam, bound laden from Plymouth for Middlesbrough, ran aground on the Inner Binks. A moderate south-westerly breeze was blowing, with a...
Louci Gougy
Walmer, Kent.—At 12.10 A.M. on the 26th May, 1939, a message was received from the South Goodwin Light-vessel through the Deal coastguard that a vessel was ashore on the sands to the N.E. by E. A N.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate...
Queen Alexandra
ENGINE FAILED Workington, Cumberland. At 6.3 a.m. on 2nd November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen one mile off Workington.
There was a gentle north-easterly breeze with a...