LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Trebartha and the S.S. Oberan
NOVEMBER 11TH. - ABERDEEN. At about 6.20 P.M. the Gregness coastguard reported that red flares, presumably from a steamer on fire, had been seen S.E. by S. of Findon, in which area bombs had been dropped by German aeroplanes. A strong S.S.E....
Grim But Glorious: the Days of Oar and Sail By Ray Kipling Public Relations Officer Rnli
WRITING ABOUT LIFEBOATS JS HCVer easy.
To many people, every lifeboat rescue is an act of heroism, carried out in a tortuous battle against the elements; to lifeboatmen, even the worst conditions are modestly played down...
Category: Articles
To Come Last In a Race and Still Earn £45724 for the Lifeboats
To come last in a race and still earn £457.24 for the lifeboats cannot be bad. This entrv in a charitv pram race held between 17 Hampsiead pub teams was dressed up to look (something) like a Waveney class lifeboat and although it came... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hearing on Sunday July 25 That Mfv Mary Sue of Dublin With Five People on Board Had Engine Failure One Mile South of Puffin Island and Needed Help Valentia's 52' Bar
Hearing, on Sunday, July 25, that MFV Mary Sue of Dublin, with five people on board, had engine failure one mile south of Puffin Island and needed help, Valentia's 52' Barnett lifeboat, Rowland Watts, slipped her moorings at 1820 and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Opening of New Headquarters at Poole
THURSDAY, MAY 6, the day on which HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the RNLI, came down to Dorset to open the new headquarters at Poole in the morning and name the new Swanage lifeboat in the afternoon, was both memorable and happy; a. day...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches. 1st May to 31st July, 1939
Greater London.
Life-boat day was held throughout Greater London on May 23rd. The amount raised was £8,132, an increase of £1,734 on 1938 and the largest sum for over twenty years.
Presentation...
Category: Branches
Admiralty Register of Wrecks for the Year 1852
THE Blue Book under the above title which is annually presented to Parliament has just been published for the year 1852.
It comes at an appropriate time. Wintry gales, long nights, and dark fogs are the fit accompaniments...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter from Page 3
branch and guild members have met the challenge with their usual enthusiasm, sheer hard work—and success.
Perhaps the most important statistic of all is the number of lives rescued in the past ten years: almost 12,500. That...
Category: Articles
Helen Craig, of Belfast
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire.—At about 4 P.M. on the 6th December a message was received that a steamer was in distress on the south side of the Ribble channel. She was the Helen Craig, of Belfast, bound for Preston, with a crew of...
Twin Saints
Lifeboats from the Channel Islands often cooperate with their French counterparts – rescue boats from the Société Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer (SNSM). The special relationship between the RNLI station at St Helier and the SNSM...
Category: Articles