LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Building Up to the Millennium
Lifeboats are often in the news, but their shore facilities receive much less of the limelight. In the first of series of articles on this hidden but significant aspect of the RNLI Shoreworks Manager Howard Richings takes a look at the...
Category: Articles
Into The Cauldron
IntO tHe Cauldron Few people would risk swimming 30m through churning seas, surrounded by rocks – but that’s exactly what an RNLI lifeguard did in her bid to save a life South of Cornwall’s popular Perranporth beach, a gully lies in amongst...
Category: Articles
St. Anne's Life-Boat Disaster Fund
ON the night of 9th December, 1886, three Lancashire life-boats, St. Anne's, Southport and Lytham, were launched to the help of the barque Mexico, of Hamburg, which had gone on the sands between Southport and Formby. A gale was blowing,...
Category: Articles
Druid, of Aberystwith
On the 9th Oc- tober, 1860, the schooner Druid, of Aber- ystwith, was driven ashore on Bideford bar. The Appledore life-boat, belonging to the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, was quickly launched through & high surf, and...
A Magnificent Model of a Galleon Made By Mr G Ritchie
A magnificent model of a galleon, made by Mr G. Ritchie of Whitehills, Banffshire, was the star prize in a raffle run during a coffee morning organised by the local ladies guild. The raffle raised £405 and here Mr Ritchie draws the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain George Warford, of Pakefield
Coxswain George Warlord, of Pakefield.
A Coxswain with a long and fine record, Coxswain George M. War- ford, of Pakefield (one of the Stations closed last year), died on 14th March last, at the age of eighty-eight. He...
Category: Obituaries
Life-Boat Essay Competition. Presentation of the Prizes in the London District
Presentation of the Prizes in the London District. LAST year, for the first time, the presentation of the prizes won in this com- petition in the London area (consistingof the schools under the London County Council) took place at one...
Category: Articles
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1885
His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L., President, IN THE CHAIE.
1.—Moved by His Grace The DUKE OF PORTLAND.
Seconded by The Eight Hon. The EAKL PEECY, P.O., M.P.,...
Category: Meetings
A Lifeboat Queen : 16-Year-Old Jane Wilson Was Crowned By Ronnie Hilton at Flamborough Ladies' Guild Gala In July With Her Are Three of Her Attendants Pat Wilkins
A lifeboat queen . ..: 16-year-old Jane Wilson was crowned by Ronnie Hilton at Flamborough ladies' guild gala in July. With her are three of her attendants, Pat Wilkinson and Bridget and Andrea Waud; the fourth attendant, Stephanie... - View image in PDF
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The Oil Rig Orion
Oil rig aground ST PETER PORT SIGNALS STATION received an 'all ships' warning at about 1900 on Wednesday, February 1, 1978, saying that, at 1850, Orion had parted from the German tug Seefalke in position 49°39'N,...