LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Angling Boat Blue Fin
Nine rescued TYNEMOUTH COASTGUARD telephoned the honorary secretary of Tynemouth lifeboat station at 1511 on Sunday April 11, 1982. to tell him that the angling boat Blue Fin appeared to be in distress south of Tyne Piers. Eleven minutes...
Round the clock
The Operations Room is hidden away at the top of the charity’s Headquarters building, but it is the nerve centre of the whole RNLI
Until refurbishment in 2008, the walls of this unusual office were lined with whiteboards...
Category: Articles
Vine
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—On the 6th of February, 1957, the motor fishing vessel Vine, of Aberdeen, while return- ing from the fishing grounds to Camp- beltown harbour with a crew of three, struck a reef on the north end of Davaar Island. An...
Coxswain Laker of Shoreham
COXSWAIN FREDERICK LAKER of Shoreham died on the 6th of Novem- ber, 1953, at the age of 73. He was appointed coxswain of the Shoreham Harbour life-boat when the station was re-opened in 1929. He remained coxswain until he retired in 1940.<...
Category: Obituaries
Services of the Life-Boats Belonging to the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
BUDDON-NESS, DUNDEE.—On the 3rd of December, 1862, the schooner Osprey, of Fraserburgh, with a cargo of wheat from Rostock, struck on the Abertay Bank, the weather being foggy, with a strong gale blowing from the S.E. As soon as she was...
Category: Services
Covering the Atlantic Coast
The West coast of Ireland saw a dramatic increase in its number of lifeboats over the last decade-and-a-half - representing the largest number of new stations to be established in such a short space of time this century. Nicholas Leach,...
Category: Articles
Mrs Manning a Member of Coventry Ladies' Guild Committee for Nearly Ten Years Has Raised £200 for the Rnli By the Sale of Soft Toys She Has Made from Fabric Off-Cu
Mrs Manning, a member of Coventry ladies' guild committee for nearly ten years, has raised £200 for the RNLI by the sale of soft toys she has made from fabric off-cuts kindly given to the guild by a local firm.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Runswick, The S.S. Saltwick, The S.S. Fidra
GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT PETERHEAD JANUARY 23RD - 26TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 6.40 in the morning of the 23rd, a message came from the coastguard that the S.S. Runswick, of Whitby, had been in collision, and the lifeboat crew were...
Dan O’Connell
NOVEMBER 6TH. - ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.
During the afternoon the motor fishing boat Dan O’Connell, of Arklow, with a crew of five, ran out of fuel as she was coming in, and anchored. A strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a...
The S.S. San Francisco, of Havre
Cromer, Norfolk.—On the morning of the 7th August the 6,000-ton s.s. San Francisco, of Havre, carrying a crew of thirty-eight, and bound laden from Newcastle to Havre, ran aground on Haisborough Sands, about two milesS.E. from Haisborough...