LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Motor Fishing Cobles
FEBRUARY 23RD. - RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.
At 6 A.M. four Staithes motor fishing cobles went out to fish. By 9.30 A.M.
it was blowing a strong gale from the E.N.E., with a heavy sea and rain. At 11.55 A.M....
Seabreeze
THREE GIRLS LANDED FROM GROUNDED CRUISER Poole, Dorset. At 11.50 on the night of Saturday the 31st August, 1963, the honorary secretary received a telephone message from Poole police that a small cabin cruiser had gone ashore off Brownsea...
Fishing Boats (1)
Ramsgate, Kent.—Four small fishing boats manned by fifteen men left harbour at 7 A.M. on the 2nd October, 1938. By ten o'clock a whole S.W.
gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The boats were unable to make harbour,...
Sir Ronald Radford
SEPTEMBER 1995 Sir Ronald Radford KCB MBE, a life vice-president of the RNLI. Sir Ronald was elected to the committee of management in 1977 and was appointed a vice-president in 1986 and a life vice-president in 1991. He was also chairman of...
Category: Obituaries
Gold (1)
Sheringham and Wells, Norfolk.—At 6.20 on the evening of the 8th of December, 1954, a hotel porter told the Sheringham life-boat station that he had seen red rockets off Weybourne.
Four minutes later the Cromer coast- guard...
A perfect match
The National Association of Round Tables of Great Britain and Ireland has supported the RNLI since the 1970s, funding 10 lifeboats. Now it has made the RNLI its Presidential Charity of the Year, May 2010–11.
The...
Category: Articles
Catriona
Skegness, Lincolnshire. — At 8.36 on the night of the 7th of October, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the Lynn Well lightvessel had reported that flares had been seen five to six miles north-by-east of her. The sea was smooth, the wind...
A Barge
APRIL 7TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A barge had been reported sinking, but she had sunk, and there was no sign of her crew when the life-boat arrived. A steamer had gone ashore, but tugs were standing by her and she did not need the...
Hope
LOWESTOFT.—On the 8th October, at about noon, signals of distress were shown by a vessel outside the Holm Sand. A moderate gale from the N. was blowing at the time. The No. 1 Life-boat, Samuel Plimsoll, was launched, and on getting alongside...
A Gas Rig (1)
Outbreak of fires At 4.30am on 4 January 2006, the B class Atlantic 21 Falmouth Round Table launched to a 6.7m yacht on fire on the Penryn River, Cornwall. The skipper had been asleep when the fire started but managed to escape through the...