LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Merchant Vessel Galina
Fortitude off Falmouth Without power, Merchant Vessel Calina found herself at the mercy of a violent storm and drifting dangerously close to shore. With the nearest Coastguard Emergency Towing Vessel (ETV) several hours away, RNLI crew were...
Clare S, Northern Star, Fair Ladies and Press On
Caught out ON THE MORNING of Thursday January 31 a fleet of fishing boats sailed from Hartlepool in comparatively good weather which, however, deteriorated fast. Within an hour, a near gale, force 7, had blown up from the east north east...
The Dublin Port and Docks Board Hopper No. 17
DECEMBER 18TH. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN.
At about 2.15 in the afternoon the Bailey Lighthouse reported that the Dublin Port and Docks Board Hopper No. 17 was adrift, bearing north-west from the lighthouse.
A...
Coronation Supplement. The Royal Family and the Life-Boat Service
WHEN the Life-boat Service was founded, at a meeting in the City of London, in 1824, King George IV became its Patron, and five of the royal dukes its vice-patrons—York, Clarence, Sussex, Cambridge and Gloucester.
So the...
Category: Articles
Calling All Mancunians: Manchester Has a Long and Historic Connection With the Rnli
Calling all Mancunians: Manchester has a long and historic connection with the RNLI. The very first street collection was held in Manchester and Salford in October 1891, when £5,000 was collected, and over the years Manchester's... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Saga, the S.S. Gowrie and S.S. St. Clair
Aberdeen, and Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.
—At 2.25 on the morning of the 17th of September, 1950, the Gregness coastguard telephoned the Aberdeen life-boat authorities. The motor fish- ing vessel Saga, of Aberdeen, with a...
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...
Lifeboat Services December 1980 January and February 1981
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun: December 19 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: January 8 Aldeburgh, Suffolk 42ft Beach: February 4 Amble, Northumberland 37ft 6in Rather: December 2 Arranmore, Co. Donegal 52ft Burnett: December 19, January 1,...
Category: Services
The Heavy Gales of October and November Last
THE unusually heavy gale, or rather hurricane, of the night of the 24th October last, was unexampled in its work of destruction in our maritime records. During the whole of that day not a single casualty, with one trifling exception,...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats In 1961
Date Station 1961 Jan. 1 Weymouth 4 Kirkcudbright 4 Penlee 5 Troon 6 Scarborough 6 Troon ..
„ 6 Weymouth ,, 6 Dover 6 Whitby „ 7 Maltaig 9 Wick ,, 11 Lerwick 12 Padstow No. 1 12 Arklow 13...
Category: Services