LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tamar
Falmouth, Cornwall. At 8.18 p.m.
on i2th August, 1965, the police said that a small yacht, Tamar, required assistance off Swanpool Beach. Her engine had broken down. The life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, on temporary...
Lorry in limbo
2 October: Hartlepool When a scrap metal lorry rolled forward and was left precariously hanging metres above the waters of Irvine's Quay, Hartlepool Harbour Police asked the RNLI to stand by during the rescue...
Category: Articles
Annual General Meeting
THE next annual general meeting of the governors of the Institution will take place at the Central Hall, West- minster, on Tuesday, 6th March, 1962..
Category: Meetings
Pinchin Johnson and Associates Limited
The Red Hand Compositions Co.
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Category: Advertisement
Sunk By the Storms
The Norwegian steamer Mi'm which went ashore in the Orkneys on 9th November, 1939. - View image in PDF
The Stromness life-boat rescued 22 of her crew, and a local boat rescued II.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Birthday Honours
Among those associated with the life-boat service on whom honours were bestowed in the Birthday Honours list were: G.B.E. Alderman Sir James Miller, Lord Mayor of the City of London, ex officio member of the Committee of Management.
Category: Awards
Cynthia, of Montrose
The schooner | Cynthia, of Montrose, was being towed out of the Tees on the 5th April, 1871, when ' the tow-rope parting, she grounded on the North Gare Sandbank. A strong wind from the E.N.E. was blowing at the...
Atlanta, of Kirkwall
On the 10th December, during a fresh gale from S.S.E.
and heavy cross-sea, the schooner Atlanta, of Kirkwall, in the Orkney Islands, after striking on the Barber Sands, on the Nor- folk coast, went ashore on Hasborough...
Top the 47Ft Tyne Class Has Served the RNLI Well
Top The 47ft Tyne class has served the RNLI we/I since her introduction in 1983, but the class will need replacing from 2003 when they reach 20 years old.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Maxima
The barque Maxima, of Swansea, bound from Cardiff to Valparaiso with a cargo of coal, showed a signal of distress at 7.45 P.M. on the 21st February during a gale from the S.W. and a rough sea. The No. 2 Life-boat went to her assistance, and...