On the 8th February, about 2 A.M., the ship Hemanos, of Lillesand, bound to Leith with a cargo of guano, was reported ashore about two miles to the northward of Cresswell and firing signals of distress.
The weather was...
THE Institution very much regrets the death of Lieut.-Co'l. H. W. Madoc, C.B.E., M.V.O., for twenty-three years honorary secretary of the Douglas, Isle of Man, life-boat station; Mr. John Prior, for twenty-five years secretary of the...
Category: Obituaries
Seaham, Durham.—At six o'clock on the evening of the 25th of June, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a boy had been cut off by the tide at Pincushion Rock, Ryhope. Ten min- utes later the life-boat George Elmy was launched. The...
CANOE CAPSIZED Boulmer, Northumberland. At 4.55 p.m. on 3 ist May, 1964, an Alnmouth resident told the honorary secretary that a canoe appeared to be in difficulty at the mouth of the River Aln. Shortly afterwards the canoe, which had aboard...
Dover, Kent. At 8.18 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1959, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel needed help one mile west of Dover. At 8.45 the life-boat Southern Africa put out in a severe south- westerly...
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 29th of September, 1960, the Royal Air Force detachment at Tenby requested the use of the life- boat Henry Comber Brown to tow in one of their air-sea rescue launches, which had broken...
Filey, Yorkshire - At 1.36 p.m. on I4th August, 1967, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that the coble Angela May was overdue. In view of the deteriorating weather conditions the life-boat The ha & Penryn Milsted was launched...
Some years ago Campbell MacCallum took a portrait of the people of Wells lifeboat station.
The cover picture on this journal is a similar portrait taken last autumn by Peter J. R.
Stibbons of Hunstanton... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Midnight Matinee which was planned to be held at the Victoria Palace theatre in London on March 8, and which was announced in the last number of THE LIFEBOAT had to be cancelled as a consequence of the economic outlook at the beginning...
Category: Articles
Robin Knox-Johnston (r), the yachtsman and a member of the RNLI's committee of management, had a bet with Don Wood (I) on who would be first to Lowestoft in the Round Britain and Ireland Yacht Race. The stake was 20 pairs of boots for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs