LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annie Ritchie
SAFELY TO ABERDEEN At 3.35 p.m. on loth March, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Annie Ritchie of Fraserburgh had broken down about three miles east by north of the Belhelvie coastguard...
Livonia and Bon Espoir
Selsey, Sussex.—On the morning of the 18th July the coastguard reported a small steamer in distress about eight miles in a north-westerly direction from Selsey look-out. Half a gale was blowing from the S.W., and the sea was rough. The motor...
Helping Hand
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 11.5 on the morning of the 21st of August, 1958, the honorary secretary received a message that a trawler had engine trouble between no. 2 and no. 3 buoys eight miles off Tenby. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was...
Lighthouse Telegraphs and Fog-Signals
THE Schiller disaster served to turn public attention to the question of Fog-signals and Alarms; and some interest was felt in the evidence taken before the BOARD or TRADE Court of Inquiry, apart from that naturally induced by the details of...
Category: Articles
Antiques Aid RNLI
Antiques Aid R.N.L.I.
Young supporters of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution staged their first antique auction at Caxton Hall on 10th July, 1972, and raised about £730. So encouraged were the Central London...
Category: Donations
Heart and soul
In 1946, the lifeboat station on Valentia Island reopened after more than 50 years. ‘I was just 3 years old,’ remembers Dick. ‘Sitting high on my daddy’s shoulders, the vision of the lifeboat and the knowledge that its volunteer crew were...
Category: Articles
Ron Parris (L) and Joe Salmon
Ron Parris f / j and Joe Salmon at work in the rigging loft on the RNLI stand: Ron weaves together the bow pudding while Joe helps one of the many interested visitors, first explaining the best knot to use in a given situation, then how to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Tam-o'-Shanter
FOWEY.—At about 12.30 A.M., on the 18th November, a flare-up light was shown by the schooner Tam-o'-Shanter, of Goole, bound from Dartmouth for Par in ballast, which was drifting before a heavy E. gale in the direction, of the...
People and Places
On Station The following lifeboats have taken up station and relief fleet duties: ALL-WEATHER Ramsey - Mersey 12-14 (ON 1171) Ann and James Ritchie on 12 July 1991.
North Sunderland - Mersey 12-16 (ON 1173) Grace Darling on...
Category: Articles
Annie Hope
CEMAES, ANGLESEA. — The Life-boat was launched at 11.15 A.M., on the 13th Maroh,a steamer having been seen to run on the Platters Books in Skerries Sound. She ultimately foundered near the Victoria buoy, and her crew of six men haying taken...