LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fishing Coble and Ayton Castle (1)
NORTH SUNDERLAND and HOLY ISLAND.
—On the morning of the 27th January, five fishermen put off in a coble from North Snnderland, for the purpose of shooting wild ducks on the Fame Islands.
Two of the men...
When the Mayor of Poole Councillor J M Norman Performed the Opening Ceremony of the Rnli Depot at Poole on May 27 the Institution Was Also Entertaining Visito
When the Mayor of Poole, Councillor J. M. Norman, performed the opening ceremony of the RNLI depot at Poole on May 27, the Institution was also entertaining visitors from La Societe Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer. (I. to r.) John Atterton,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Chief Rabbi's Appeal for the Life-Boat Service
THE Institution has received a personal letter from the Very Rev. the Chief Rabbi, Dr. J. H. Hertz, Ph.D., ex- pressing the hope that the Jews of Great Britain will respond generously to the appeal of the life-boat service.
Category: Correspondence
Contents
The LifeboatSpring 1990 Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 51 Number 511 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD MNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution,...
Category: Contents
The Motor Fishing Coble Margaret and James
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 2.30 in the afternoon of the 30th of December, 1949, fishermen reported that the local motor fishing coble Margaret and James was overdue. She could not be seen from the shore and the weather was worsening. The life-boat...
A Magnificent Group of Services. 19th-21st November, 1916
SELDOM, if ever, has there been con- centrated within three days of Life-boat work a more splendid series of achieve- ments than those which are briefly described below. They were charac- terised throughout by heroic effort in the face of...
Category: Services
Books
• Storms brought devastation to Margate during the winter of 1978, destroying its pier and wrecking the lifeboat station. However, as a result of the research which followed to replace the lost service boards of Margate's lifeboats,...
Category: Articles
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1857
THE extensive and increasing commerce of the United Kingdom renders unfortunately shipwrecks on its shores a matter of daily occurrence. Indeed, their frequency is so great, that in the aggregate the public at large fail to realise the...
Category: Articles
Civil Joyce, Hellier, Blue Bird and Dorothy
The local fishing cobles Civil Joyce, Hellier, Blue Bird and Dorothy put to sea at 7 A.M. to haul lines which had been shot overnight.
The weather was fair. By 11 A.M. a north gale was blowing, with a very rough sea, and...
Tisiphone and the Gleaner
MONTROSE.—At about 9 A.M. on the 13th April the wind commenced to blow from S.S.E., and the sea rose quickly, the coxswains of the Life-boats were therefore on the watch during the day in case there should be any call for their services.<...