LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services
South Western Division Aground on rocks AT 0205 ON SUNDAY, February 13, the honorary secretary of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, was requested by St Mary's Coastguard to launch to the aid of a French fishing vessel aground on rocks near...
Category: Services
Gilded Age
QUEENSTOWN.—Ofl the 27th October, at about 10.15 A.M., a telegram was received from the Coastguard Station, at Eobert's Cove, stating that a yacht was in distress off Cork Head. The Quiver Life-boat was promptly launched, and proceeded,...
Boy Nicholas
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—In response to signals, the Life-boat Mark Lane was launched at 2.40 a.m. on the 16th September, and found the fishing-smack Boy Nicholas, of Lowestoft, aground on the East Cross Sand, where she had stranded in a thick...
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 103. Lives rescued 130.
November Meeting.
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—On the evening of the 1st October a message was received from Horse Sand Fort that a vessel was stranded about two...
Category: Services
Sophie, of Oporto, Georgina
On the 4th January, 1857, the brig Sophie, of Oporto, was driven on shore in a heavy easterly gale between three and four miles south of Hauxley Point, on the Northumberland coast. The Hauxley life-boat belonging to the NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT...
5. Aberdeen's Bon Accord No,1
5. Aberdeen's Bon Accord No,1 North Country class lifeboat shares its name with the station's current Severn class lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part X—Engines and Superstructure Fitted: Steering System
A CRANE MOVED into the boatshed at William Osbornes one day last autumn to lift first the twin engines and then the superstructure aboard the 37ft 6in Rother class lifeboat which will be RNLB Shoreline.
The engines are twin...
Category: Articles
Shoreline
SINCE THE VERY START of the lifeboat service, women have played an important part in its existence. If there was only one Grace Darling, there were dozens of women who helped to launch the lifeboats in early days—and there are still those...
Category: Articles
On November 19 1933 Longhope Lifeboat Went to Help Icelandic Trawler Geysir of Reykjavik Grounded on Torness Point Pentland Firth Among 15 People Rescued
On November 19, 1933, Longhope lifeboat went to help Icelandic trawler Geysir of Reykjavik, grounded on Torness Point, Pentland Firth. Among 15 people rescued was 19-year-old Sigridur Johannesdottir, daughter of one of the boat's owners.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fundraising
Running miles but going nowhere? Why not take part in an exciting RNLI race and take your running to new horizons while raising funds that help save lives at sea...A race to suit every paceIf you're a keen runner but tired of doing it...
Category: Articles