LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Eleanor Anne, of Padstow
Padstow, Cornwall - At 7.30 p.m. on 18th October, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen six miles from Port Isaac. The life-boat Joseph Hiram Chadwick slipped her moorings at 8 o'clock The...
Loss of friends
Here at the RNLI we’re sorry to report the death of Trevor Grills, singer with the shanty group Fisherman’s Friends. He died on 11 February, after being injured in an accident at a concert venue that also killed the manager of the group,...
Category: Articles
Sea Venture, of Immingham
number, Yorkshire - At 1.45 p.m. on 7th October, 1967, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a fishingboat had broken down and was drifting one mile south-east of Chequer buoy. The life-boat Edward and Isabella Irwin, on temporary duty...
Ellen, of Liverpool
On the 13th November, the schooner Ellen, of Li- verpool, laden with freestone, on entering the River Dee, struck on the bar at its mouth, in a strong breeze from the S.S.E.
Information of the same having been con- veyed...
Notes of the Quarter
The world's first lifeboat station? Until recently it has been accepted that the world's first lifeboat station was at Bamburgh, Northumberland, where, in 1786, Dr John Sharp, the chief administrator of the Crewe Trust, persuaded...
Category: Articles
Return of the Native
Return of the native The former Aberdeen lifeboat Ramsey Dyce - which served at the station between 1957 and 1976 before being transferred to the relief fleet - visited her old station during September 1995. She had previously called at... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Henry Morton of Sunderland
On the 10th December, at 8 P.M., the brig Henry Morton, of Sunderland, got on shore on the Sizewell Bank, there being a heavy surf on the bank at the time. The Institution's Thorpeness life-boat was launched, and went to the aid of her...
Loss of Memory
THE following story comes from the North of England. Two gentlemen were so convinced that each was accurate in a certain statement that they had a small wager on the result.
Naturally one lost, and our Organising Secretary...
Category: Donations
Elizabeth, of Carlisle
On the 26th October, at 9.30 A.M., the Life-boat William Tomlinson was launched to the assistance of the schooner Elizabeth, of Carlisle, which had driven ashore near Seascale, a heavy sea breaking on the beach and it blowing hard at S.S.W....
Ystroom, of Amsterdam
On the 27th January, during a fresh breeze at S.S.E., in obedience to signals observed from the North Sand Head and Gull Lightships, the Life- boat Bradford, in tow of the steam-tug Aid, proceeded to the barque Ystroom, of Amsterdam, then...