LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Feature: Lifeboat Lottery
The spring 2004 Lifeboat Lottery was the highest earning RNLI lottery ever, raising over £381,000 - the equivalent of two inshore lifeboats, a hovercraft and the training of their crews. Congratulations go to first prize winners Mr and...
Category: Articles
Sesam (1)
All in a season's work RNLI Divisional Inspector Colin Williams gives a round up of all things operational this Spring in the island of Ireland Our crews experience everything that the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean can muster, as...
Starting Them Young!
Starting them young! Eleven month old Adam Sheahan pictured left, has to be one of the RNLI's youngest fundraisers. He spent a day with his grandma, May Perkins, when she went out collecting on behalf of Hertford fundraising branch. The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Snapper
JAN. 22ND. - POOLE AND BOURNEMOUTH, DORSET. At about noon in- formation was received through the coastguard that the motor launch Snapper, which was bound from Hamworthy to Southampton, was in difficulties off Boscombe Pier. A...
Gallilee, Success, Pilot Me and Provider
MCH. 15TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
During the morning five Whitby fishing vessels put to sea at 5 A.M. A strong N.N.E.
wind was blowing, with a heavy broken sea.
The sea increased and at 10...
Ina and Johnstones
Nov. 3RD. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 10 A..M. a message was received from the Blyth coastguard that two local fishing boats, Ina and Johnstones, were at sea.
A S.E. gale was blowing, with a choppy sea.<...
Laura
FEBRUARY 10TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO.
DOWN. At about 11.20 A.M. information came from the look-out that a motor fishing boat had broken down at The Rig, off the Copeland Islands, four miles from Donaghadee.
A...
Argo
AUGUST 20TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. About noon the sailing yacht Argo put out with a fishing party on board, a man, a woman and three children. They had not returned by ten at night, and anxiety was felt for their safety. At 11.8 the...
History laid to rest
The Lifeboat Support Centre at RNLI Headquarters houses Engineering and Supply, Finance and the Sales company but, during building work in 2003, an 18th-century Baptist burial ground was unearthed here. Analysis of the excavated remains has...
Category: Articles
River Ythan
AUGUST 11TH. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.
At 11 P.M. the naval officer in command asked for the life-boat to go out to a vessel aground on Pilling Sands. She was the trawler River Ythan, of Fleetwood, loaded with fish and...