LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
BRINGING 200 TONNES OF TRAWLER HOME
Kieran had to work fast. In high winds, a trawler’s heaving line had got tangled around the lifeboat’s searchlight and radar. Someone had to climb up and cut it loose or the next big swell could bring the gear down …
The...
Category: Articles
Letters
Trading Stamps Appeal May I say a big thank you to all the readers who have sent me trading stamps? I have at last raised £10,000 and am so grateful for all the help and encouragement I have received.
I started in a...
Category: Correspondence
The Duke of Northumberland Was the First Steam and the First Steel Lifeboat She Was Built By R and H Green of Blackball and Stationed In Turn at Harwich Holyhead and New Brighton Finally R
The Duke of Northumberland was the first steam, and the first steel, lifeboat. She was built by R. and H. Green of Blackball and stationed in turn at Hanvich. Holyhead and New Brighton, finally returning to Holyhead in 1897. where she... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
January
JANUARY Launches 32. Lives rescued 76.
JANUARY 3RD. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
At 9.10 P.M. the naval officer in charge telephoned that R.A.F. high-speed launch No. 124 was somewhere off...
Category: Services
Pulaid Marine Systems
The instant guide to safety at sea.
Legislation or not in 1992. as every serious boat user knows, safety at sea is vital - and when the unexpected happens, there's often little time to consider the correct response.<...
Category: Advertisement
Mrs Brian Miles. RNLI Director Lt Cmdr Brian Miles. Mrs Ian Oliver, and Dr Ian Oliver of Grampian Police Are Introduced to Hm the Queen
Mrs Brian Miles. RNLI Director Lt Cmdr Brian Miles. Mrs Ian Oliver, and Dr Ian Oliver of Grampian Police are introduced to HM The Queen, with the Lord Lieutenant for Aberdeenshire. Captain Colin Farquharson. in attendance.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life-Governor.
The following have been appointed HONOR- ARY LIFE-GOVERNORS of the Institu- tion and have been presented with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, K.G.,...
Category: Awards
Another Steam Life-Boat
IN 1890 we had the pleasure of placing before our readers full detailed accounts of the first steam Life-boat ever built.
This vessel was a hydraulic steamboat built for the Institution by Messrs. E. and H. Green, of...
Category: Articles
Four Attempts to Go Alongside Yawl
ON the morning of the 1st June, 1961, Mr. E. R. Copeman, the honorary sec- retary of the Teesmouth branch, was travelling with his wife on the coast road towards Redcar when his wife noticed a yacht close inshore in broken water. Mr. Copeman...
Category: Services
The Skipper and His Dog
A SEA captain's love for his dog was the cause of an interesting incident in connection with the rescue of a shipwrecked crew by the Clacton Life-boat on 23rd February last.
The schooner Renner stranded on the Buxey...
Category: Articles