LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bluff
The steamer Bluff, of Durban, bound from Grimsby to South Africa, where she was intended for the fishing trade, stranded on the Cross R'idge, in hazy weather, on the 5th March, and at 5.50 the No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was launched to...
Harold
The motor life-boat Anne Allen was launched at 11.32 A.M. on the 2nd December, as the coastguard had reported that a fishing boat, six and a half miles S.E. of Skeg- ness, had hoisted distress signals. A strong W. by S. breeze was blowing,...
Unsung heroes: Mike Howland
Lifeboat Press Officer,
Douglas Lifeboat Station
How did you first get involved with the RNLI?
I’m a hobby wildlife photographer, and my son was on the crew as deputy second coxswain. The press officer left...
Category: Articles
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Shore, lifeboat and helicopter crews save anglerA huge wave threw an angler off rocks into the sea near Padstow, Cornwall. Luckily, two boys saw the incident and ran to get help and the Padstow lifeboat crew were soon paged. They jumped in...
TRIMARAN UPTURNED
DUNGENESS | 4 APRIL
A man and woman were rescued from the upturned hull of a trimaran by the volunteer crew of RNLI Dungeness. Both casualties were balancing on the slippery surface when the Shannon...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy (1)
Runswick, Yorkshire.—At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 7th of July, 1957, the honorary secretary received a tele- phone message that two men were being blown out to sea in a small dinghy. At 3.50 the life-boat The Elliott Gill was launched in...
Jewel
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 8.17 on the evening of the 17th of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small vessel was showing distress signals three and a half miles north-east of Peterhead. At 8.30 the...
Millvina Dean on Her Visit to Broughty Station
Millvina Dean on her visit to Broughty station. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Marie
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 2.20 on the afternoon of the 18th of June, 1958, a message was received from Valentia radio station that the trawler Marie of Waterford needed help half a mile west-north-west of the small Tearaght Rock. At 2.30 the...
A Life-Boat Story
A dozen of hearts ! and a dozen of hands! And the courage of death 1—'tis a York- shire boast; It was all they asked one November noon, When a hurricane blew on the Whitby coast.
For a cry came over the wailing sands,...
Category: Poetry