LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Record of 1940.
During 1940 the Institution's life-boats were launched r,o8t times. That is 396 more launches than ever before in one year.
They rescued 2.056 lives. That is 858 more lives rescued than ever before in one year.
Category: Articles
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
The fishwives of Cullercoats last year collected £259. One fishwife, Mrs.
B. Mattison, alone collected over £258 of that total, a record sum for one collector; and the Institution has since had £ig from the R...
Category: Articles
Caribia, of Delfzyl
FEBRUARY 26TH - 27TH. - CAISTER, AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. About 2.45 in the morning the coastguard telephoned to Caister that the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston life-boat had just launched to a vessel on the east side of...
Trouble on the Trap
The following account by Commander Erroll Bruce, R.N.(Retd. editor ofMotor Boat and Yachting, appeared in the edition for i8th September, 1964, and is reproduced with his kind permission. He is a former member of the Longhope life-boat crew...
Category: Articles
A Small Boat and A Motor Boat
DECEMBER 8TH AND 9TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. A small boat had been reported in difficulties, but reached shore safely, and a motor boat had been reported adrift, but later was reported safe. - Rewards : first service, £8 8s. ;...
List of Launches
Station-by-station lifeboat launches for March, April and May 1998 Aberdeen Arun. Mar 15, May 23 and 31 D Class. Mar 6, 15, 25. 29, Way 4 and 23 Abersoch Atlantic 21, Mar 1. Apr 11, 26, May 1,2. 14, 17. 19 (Twice), 23 (Twice) and 25...
Category: Services
The Tiny Much Wenlock Branch of the Rnli In the Middle of England Is Reported to Be Suddenly Doing Very Well Indeed' Here Are Some of Its Members In Fund-Raising Fo
The tiny Much H'enlock brunch of the RNLI in the middle of England is reported to be 'suddenly doing very well indeed'. Here are some of its members in fund-raising form.
by courtesy of The Shropshire Star and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Another Success for Queen Victoria
The beautifully restored 1887 pulling and sailing lifeboat, Queen Victoria, was in action again on 30 May when she was hauled overland from Bembridge to Sandown on the Isle of Wight. Queen Victoria is thought to be the oldest surviving RNLI... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Wreck of a Finnish Motor Ship. Thirty Lives Lost In the Orkneys
IN the early morning of 12th January, 1937, a Finnish motor ship, the Johanna Thorden, passed through the Pentland Firth, between the north of Scotland and the Orkneys, on her way from New York to Gothenburg. She had thirty- eight on board,...
Category: Services
An Aeroplane (76)
MAY 2ND. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. An aeroplane had crashed in the sea, and part of it was above water. Attempts were made to recover the bodies of her crew, but they were unsuccessful. - Rewards, £7 12s. 6d.
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