LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Enterprize II
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 10.5 on the morning of the llth of October, 1952, the life-boat coxswain reported that the fishing coble Enterprize II was at sea in bad weather. Conditions at the outer harbour bar were dangerous, and the No. 1...
Membership News
G o v e r n o r s • S h o r e I i ne • S t o r m F o r c e Hitting the target In the summer edition of THE LIFEBOAT we asked whether it was possible to set our sights on obtaining that 200,000th active member by the end of 1991. We have...
Category: Articles
Looking fore and aft
What’s it like to take a lifeboat through stormy seas while saving supporters from the muddy waters of legalese? Solicitor and former Coxswain John Stewart explains
‘I’m adjusting well but want to get used to being away...
Category: Articles
The Folio Society
illustrated facsimile editions Yours for only 399 FAIRY TALES & FABLES INCLUDING: The Emperor's New Clothes The Ugly Duckling The Frog Primv • Rapunzel The Hare and the Tortoise The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing The Sleeping Beauty...
Category: Advertisement
Paris Universal Exhibition. Model Life-Boats, Etc
WE annex a list of the various models and other articles which have been transmitted by the Royal National Life-boat Institution to the Paris Universal Exhibition.
I. We are glad to understand that these articles form not...
Category: Articles
The RNLI and me: Guy Martin
WHO IS GUY MARTIN?
Born in Grimsby, Guy Martin is a mechanic better known for his motorcycle racing and television programmes, including The Boat That Guy Built and Speed with Guy Martin. When he’s not trying to break world speed...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 8th OCTOBER, 1908.
Sir JOHN CAMERON LAMB, C.B., O.M.G., in the Chair.
Colonel Fitzroy CLAYTON, V.P., who for the last twenty-five years had been the Deputy Chairman, was unanimously appointed...
Category: Committee
Sallie
At 6 A.M. on the 31st January the fishing cobles put to sea to haul their lines, and at 9 A.M.
the wind and sea increased. Twenty- one of the cobles got into safety, but the coble Sallie was in great danger when she was...
Fishing Cobles (3)
At 6.30 A.M. on the 26th December fourteen of the cobles belonging to Filey put to sea for the purpose of hauling their lines, and at about 8 A.M. the wind commenced to freshen, causing most of the boats to run for safety. By 10 A.M. all the...
A Small Boat Named Joan
The motor life- boat City of Bradford I, on relief duty at this station, was launched at 8.25 A.M. on the 14th May, as the second motor mechanic had seen a small boat in danger about three and a half miles S.S.W. of the look-out. A strong...