LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Saga of Stronsay
When their pagers woke them in the early hours of Sunday 25 October 2009, Kirkwall lifeboat crew didn’t know they were to face 9 hours at sea and an injury of their own
Stronsay, looking like a missing piece of some...
Category: Articles
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part Xii—Trials
THROUGHOUT HER BUILDING a lifeboat is under the regular scrutiny of the RNLI's own hull, machinery and electronics overseers; she also receives periodic visits by Lloyd's Register of Shipping surveyors and an exceptionally high...
Category: Articles
Rito
Submerged object struck HM COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Filey lifeboat station at 2048 on Tuesday December 20, 1983, that the coaster Rito was in difficulty three miles north east of Filey Brigg.
Water was...
Membership News
Governors Shoreline Storm Force Welcome! If you have just joined us as a member of the RNLI through one of our recent advertisements or promotions and are reading THE LIFEBOAT journal for the first time - WELCOME ABOARD! This members page is...
Category: Articles
Fishing Boats (1)
Fishermen saved after 20 hours in ferocious blizzard It took a joint effort by the Mallaig and Kyle of Lochalsh lifeboats, RAF and coastguard helicopters and local fishermen to locate two friends who got lost while out whelking on 27...
Success
On the 24th November, the/Life-boat and steam-tug again went out, during a strong E.N.E. gale and a tremendous sea, at about 10.45 P.M., and brought into Ramsgate harbour the fishing - vessel Success, which had just been brought to anchor,...
Mrs. Finch, of Chelmsford
By the death of Mrs. Finch of Chelms- ford, on 15th August, the Institution has lost an honorary worker whose devotion to the life-boat service was shown by her refusal to give up her work for it, even when disabled by serious illness. Mrs....
Category: Obituaries
A Barge (1)
10th Novem- ber. A barge was known to have gone ashore, but the life-boat could not find her in the darkness, as she had no lights. The barge remained ashore, but her crew were in no danger.—Perma- nent crew; Rewards, £1 2s....
Albion
The Life-boat Thomas Black was launched at 6.38 P.M. on 6th February, in response to a message, stating that a vessel was quickly drifting ashore on the east side of Langness with her sails all gone.
On receipt of the...
Gipsy
YOUGHAL, Co. CORK.—The ketch Gipsy, of Youghal, returning from Cork, with no cargo or ballast, on the 25th March, found that with a strong head wind and an ebb tide she could not enter the harbour; she therefore ran for shelter under...