LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ramlah, Royal Empire, Sarah, Guide Me and Margaret
APRIL 22ND. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 7.30 A.M. anxiety was being felt for the safety of some of the fishing cobles, as a very strong N.N.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. As both life-boat coxswains, and a number of the...
The Duchess of Kent at Bridlington and Tynemouth
THE DUCHESS OF KENT, President of the Institution, took part for the first time in naming ceremonies of life-boats when she Avent on March 8th to Bridlington and on March 10th to Tynemouth and named their new life-boats, the Tittle Morrison,...
Category: Articles
Ned' the Barge Horse and Mr E Wrangles Who Was Sponsored By 140 People for £137 Were Two of the Participants In the Hertford Walk In Aid of the RNLI Along The
'Ned', the barge horse, and Mr. E. Wrangles, who was sponsored by 140 people for £137, were two of the participants in the Hertford walk in aid of the R.N.L.I, along the towpath of the River Lee from Hertford to Dobbs Weir last... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Grand Celebration
In October 1989 the Lytham St Annes Ladies' Lifeboat Luncheon Club celebrated its 25th anniversary, and at a party held to celebrate this, and the director's, 25 years with the RNLI, Lt Cdr Brian Miles was asked to help cut the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Steamers Lisburn & Baronminto, and S.S. Patia, Clumber Hall and Alcora
OCTOBER 30TH. - PETERHEAD, AND FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 6.30 in the morning a message was received at Peterhead from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore on the rocks a mile east of Rattray Head, which is about ten...
Palmer 'Ands It Over
Easterners' dodgy geezer George Palmer (aka actor Paul Moriarty) presented a cheque to crew members of Brighton lifeboat in March.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year 1884-85
No Wreck Register having been issued this autumn by the BOARD OF TRADE, we are unable, as has been our wont for upwards of thirty years, to furnish our readers, in the November number of our Journal, with a Chart showing the wrecks and...
Category: Articles
Stranger, of Newfoundland
— On the | night of the same day the schooner i Stranger, of Newfoundland, was driven ,' ashore on Tramore Sands during a fresh gale from the S.S.E. As soon as she was seen information was sent to the coxswain of the...
The Motor Fishing Boats Pilot Me II and Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire.—During the morn- ing of the 8th of May, 1951, there was a strong northerly gale and a heavy swell off Whitby; and it was making the harbour bar very dangerous for the returning local motor fishing boats, Pilot Me II and...
The Keel Boats Endeavour, Queen Venture and Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire. At 12.45 P-m- on 29th November, 1965, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that there were three keel boats still at sea in conditions that were exceptionally bad and getting worse. The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth...