LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Storm Song and Simona
Tyne rescues crews of two yachts in galeThe Director of the RNLI has written to thank the crew of the Ramsgate lifeboatfor a service 'carried out very professionally' after the station's Tyne had rescued the crews of two yachts...
The S.S. Le Blanc
HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.—At 6.50 P.M. on the 21st February the Life-boat Coard William Sguarey was launched in a nasty sea, with a moderate N.N.E. breeze, and stood by the s.s. Le Blanc, which had stranded near the Bell Buoy. At high water the...
Letters
Brighton lifeboat station I read with interest the reference in the summer issue of THE LIFEBOAT to the fact that Brighton lifeboat station was marking its own 160th anniversary in 1984 as well as that of the...
Category: Correspondence
The Fundraisers
FORTHCOMING EVENTS We regret that we are unable to include notices of forthcoming events in THE LIFEBOAT as the number involved would soon swamp the journal. We endeavour to report as many fundraising events as possible after they have taken...
Category: Articles
The Encroachment of the Sea
IT is only to be expected that the sub- ject of the erosion of the coast, which in other words means the encroachment of the sea, should be one of considerable interest to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION. The nature of Life- boat...
Category: Articles
Feature Zetland Lifeboat - 200 Years
The Zetland is the oldest surviving lifeboat in the world. She first saw action in 1802 and continued to save lives at Redcar until 1880. Local historian Dave Phillipson, a crew member from 1961-1986, looks at the history of a remarkable...
Category: Articles
Annual Report
AT the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Thursday, the 18th day of March, 1858, Vice-Admiral the DUKE of NORTHUMBERLAND, KG., F.R.S., in the Chair, The following Report of the...
Category: Annual Reports
H.M. Trawler Avanturine
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT NEWHAVEN NOVEMBER 23RD. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. At 8.40 in the evening a message came from the naval officerin- charge at Newhaven, through the coastguard, asking that the life-boat should stand by. The crew were...
General Burwood and Struan
A message was received on the 19th January from the coast- guard stating that a vessel was ashore two miles south of Belhelvie coastguard station, and the Aberdeen No. 1 motor life-boat Emma Constance put out at 7.10 P.M. She found the Hull...
Lifeboat Services
VERY LITTLE SEAROOM AND FUEL OIL ON THE DECKS Two services in eight days to factory ships - 40 men saved The joint second coxswain of the Lerwick lifeboat, William Clark, has achieved the rare distinction of being awarded the RNLI's...
Category: Services