LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Oneida
Rope round propeller LATE IN THE AFTERNOON of Friday November 30,1984, the honorary secretary of Fishguard lifeboat station was contacted by Milford Haven coastguard to be told that a 33ft fishing vessel, Oneida, had a rope round her...
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1870
THE Board of Trade has recently published the Wreck Register of the United Kingdom for the past year. As usual, it is a most interesting document, convey- ing much useful information on a subject of national importance.
On...
Category: Annual Reports
The Fundraisers
A bridge too far!Bridge! Photo Blackpool Evening Gazette Four thousand walkers crossed the River Wyre in Lancashire via the new Shard Bridge - and managed to raise £4,000 for the RNLI! The idea for the sponsored walk, before the...
Category: Articles
Rocks and Shoals
Four very experienced coxswains were in London last May to be awarded medals for bravery. For all of them, Michael Berry of Jersey, Michael Scales of Guernsey, Michael Grant of Selsey and Thomas Cocking of St Ives, it was at least their...
Category: Articles
The Motor Life-Boat Returns, a Journey of Twenty Miles, at the Height of the Gale
The Motor Life-Boat Returns A Journey of Twenty Miles at The Height of the Gale She Attempts To Get Alongside The Wreck Three Times She Is Swept Past By The Seas and Tide. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
CLOUGHEY, Co. DOWN.—On the night of the 20th January the s.s. City of Lahore, belonging to Liverpool, stranded on Kearney Point. The Life-boat John was launched and proceeded to the steamer. The captain requested the boat to stand by, which...
Category: Services
April (1)
PORTMUCK, Co. ANTRIM. Just after noon on the 19th of October, 1943, a British aeroplane crashed into the sea about six miles south-east of Muck Island, and the Portmuck coastguard called out a local motor boat, Bl96. The sea was smooth with...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
SBLSEY, SUSSEX.—At 7.35 A.M. on the 19th March the Coastguard reported that a vessel was on the Mixen Reef, flying signals of distress. The crew of the Life-boat Lucy Newbon were at once assembled and the boat launched, but just after she...
Category: Services
Presentations and Celebrations Go Together When Coxswain Edgar Moore (I) of Newhaven Retired After 16 Years Service His Station Presented Him With a Model Of
Presentations and celebrations go together. . . . When Coxswain Edgar Moore (I.) of Newhaven retired after 16 years service, his station presented him with a model of Kathleen Mary made by Mr Osbourne and Mr Fox of Christchurch. Mrs P.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishing Boats and Gigs Robert Henry, Children's friend and Boy Willie
ST. IVES, CORNWALL.—Early on the morning of the 21st January several fishing-boats left the harbour, and whilst they were in the bay the wind suddenly increased to a very heavy gale from the N.N.E., with a tremendous sea on the ridge. At...