LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rambling Rose and Cynthia, of Amble
AUGUST 25TH. - NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 9.39 at night the Seahouses coastguard telephoned that two cabin cruisers were making distress signals four miles north-north-east of Boulmer.
A slight breeze was blowing...
Midge
On the afternoon of the 12th September the Rt. Hon. J. H. Thomas, M.P., Secretary of State for the Dominions, went out in the motor boat Midge, with a friend and two members of his staff, to fish. The engine broke down and the boat began...
A Dinghy
Dover, Kent. At 10.30 p.m. on i6th January, 1965, the police informed the honorary secretary that two men had set out for the Mole in a small dinghy leaving a third man on the beach who was to be picked up after one of the men had been...
Life-Boat Calendar for 1931
THE Life-boat Calendar for 1931 is now ready. In previous years the calendars have reproduced paintings of Life-boat rescues. This year it is the portrait of a Life-boatman—a reproduction of a pen and ink drawing of the late Coxswain William...
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Lifeboat Wireless Programme
MK. EDGAR H. JOHNSON, the District Organizing Secretary for the North of England, arranged a special programme for the British Broadcaatmg Corporation, called " My Life-boat Programme," which, on. 4th May, was broadcast from the...
Category: Articles
Regulus and a Dinghy
It was a dark and stormy night...
The Invergordon lifeboat Douglas Aikman Smith was launched just before midnight on 10 May 2002, following reports that two craft were overdue at Golspie, in winds of Force 5-6. Contact was...
SAFETY NET
Thanks to your support, the RNLI is helping to make the seas a safer place for the people who put fish on our tables
Commercial fishing in the cold, rough seas around the UK and Republic of Ireland is a hazardous...
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Past and Present
75 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT May 1916 Life-boat crews on the Yorkshire Coast From time immemorial it has been the custom of the Life-boat Service not to maintain fixed crews for Lifeboats, but to draw volunteers as required...
Category: Articles
J. W. R.
BALLANTRAE.—The fishingboat J. W. R., of this port, was seen to have lost halyards and mast, which had been broken by the violence of the gale, on the 30th December,! and it being impossible for the crew to run her ashore, the Life-boat...
Five Fishing Cobles
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 10.20 on the morning of the 27th of March, 1952, the life-boat coxswain reported that the weather was deteriorating and that five fishing cobles were at sea.
At 10.37 the life-boat The Cuttle was...