LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
When Dr Donald Coggan Archbishop of Canterbury and His Wife Paid An Informal Visit to Whitstable Ilb Station on July 27 They Went Out In the Atlantic 21 and His Gr
When Dr Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his wife paid an informal visit to Whitstable ILB station on July 27, they went out in the Atlantic 21 and His Grace took the wheel.
Since the founding of the Institution... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
In the Summer Issue of the Journal It Was Reported That Blyth Lifeboat Rnlb Shoreline Accompanied Newcastle Circumnavigator David Scott Cowper's Yacht Ocean Bound In to Blyth for a Recepti
In the summer issue of the journal it was reported that Blyth lifeboat, RNLB Shoreline, accompanied Newcastle circumnavigator David Scott Cowper's yacht Ocean Bound in to Blyth for a reception at the Royal Northumberland Yacht... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Efficient Aid of Coast Guard
In looking over the list of wrecks, no one can fail to be struck at the prominent position occupied by the officers and men of the Coast-Guard Service on all such occasions.
The records of the National Shipwreck Insti-...
Category: Articles
Frederick, of Dunblin
On the 22nd August, the barque Frederick, of Dublin, drove <5n the bar off Dundalk; there was only one man on board, who had been left in charge. On the 13th Sept., the weather being squally and a heavy sea on, the Dundalk life-boat...
Giving Instead of Receiving
THE Institution has received a gift from a Liverpool man who celebrated his twenty-first birthday by asking his friends, instead of buying him presents, to give him money for the life-boat service..
Category: Donations
Switzerland, of Panama
At 7.44 p.m. on 16th October, 1969, it was learnt that a stewardess on board a vessel in Bull anchorage required immediate medical attention for suspected appendicitis. The life-boat City of Bradford HI, with a doctor on board, was launched...
Star of Freedom
UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. At 12.30 a.m. on 3rd February 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Star of Freedom of Fleetwood had struck an unidentified object fifteen miles...
Alistair Dunning, of Pfizer
Alistair Dunning, of Pfizer presents Nigel French and Dr Crawford, Ramsgate chairman with a cheque for £5,000 which will fund a year's crew training at the station.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Monica, of Gothenburg
JANUARY 26TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.
The motor vessel Monica, of Gothenburg, had stranded, but the tide was ebbing and the crew were in no danger. - Rewards, £17 9s..
Columbine of Wexford
This life-boat was also taken out on the 5th December to the schooner Columbine, of Wexford, which in running for Hantoon Channel, the entrance to Wexford Harbour, while the wind was blowing hard from the east, and the sea running high,...