LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Grand designs for a lifeboat station
There’s been a lifeboat station in the picturesque town of Tenby, in south west Wales, for 160 years – but it’s not always been in the same place
The station was established in 1852 by the...
Category: Articles
Two Danish Motor Fishing Vessels, The Mary Iversen and The Gadanus
MAY 13TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
At 11.52 in the morning the coastguard reported two Danish motor fishing vessels, the Mary Iversen and the Gadanus, in difficulties on the Inner Middle Sandbank.
A...
Fifty-Three Years' Service. Second Coxswain William Mowat, of Longhope, and Mr. Edward Bensley, of Gorleston
Second Coxswain William Mowat, of Longhope, and Mr. Edward Bensley, of Gorleston.
Two life-boatmen died last October, each of whom had the remarkable record of fifty-three years' service in the life-boat. One was...
Category: Obituaries
The Motor Drifter Dol-Fyn
APRIL 23RD. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
At about 12.50 P.M. the coastguard reported that a vessel about three miles south of Portland Bill was showing distress signals, and the motor life-boat William and Clara Ryland was launched...
Holly How
NEW BRIGHTON.—A telephone message havisg been received on the night of the 28th March reporting a vessel stranded on Crosby Beach, the steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland left her moorings at 11.20 and proceeded through a heavy sea, the...
Four Successful Efforts By the Guild. Glasgow Ball and Whist Drive, Belfast Ball, Exeter Theatricals
THE five outstanding efforts made by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild last winter were the Second Annual Life-boat Matinee organised by the Central London Women's Committee last December, of which an account appeared in the last number of...
Category: Articles
Lifeboats In Action
THE LIFEBOAT Anjn class lifeboat OM-1150 Hibtrntt Built 1989 Cost £600.000 Funding A very generous donation from the Irish Sailor* and Soldier* L*nd Truft. which also provided funding toward* th« running of lifeboat* in Ireland THE...
Category: Services
Ian Firman
When Ian Firman was appointed coxswain of Scarborough lifeboat in 1983 he was, at 27, one of the youngest men to have held that position. He joined the lifeboat crew in 1977 and became second coxswain in 1982. Serving the RNLI is fast... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Barmouth: Trh the Prince and Princess of Wales With Barmouth Lifeboatmen
Barmouth: TRH The Prince and Princess of Wales, with Barmouth lifeboatmen, looking at the picture presented to the Princess after she had named the 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat Princess of Wales, photograph by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Out from Gothenburg: (I to R) Huragan Poland Olav Wallenius Sweden Fritz Behrens Federal Republic of Germany and Merchant Navy Rnli
Out from Gothenburg: (I to r) Huragan, Poland, Olav Wallenius, Sweden, Fritz Behrens, Federal Republic of Germany, and Merchant Navy, RNLI.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs