LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tina Louise
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex - At 12.15 p.m. on 2nd July, 1967, news was received that a fishing vessel had stranded on the West Barrow sands one and a half miles north west of the Mid-Barrow lightvessel.
The life-boat Sir Godfrey...
November (1)
NOVEMBER MEETING INCHCOLM ISLAND, FIFESHIRE. On the evening of the 15th of July, 1945, five men and women of the Services went out on pleasure in a naval dinghy intending to sail from Aberdour to Inchcolm. They started in calm weather, but...
Category: Services
Some Ways of Raising Money
Lt E. Gough, the RNLI's staff officer (Communications), sent the message Uniform Whisky One (UW1) to the Boys' Brigade at Aigburth, Liverpool, after they had raised £36 by mounting a display about the sea, doing figure marching...
Category: Donations
Lady Maude
Redcar, Yorks. At 9.45 a.m. on the 26th of June, 1965, a fishing coble was reported in difficulties about two miles away in a rough sea. The life-boat Aguila Wren launched at 9.50 on a flooding tide and soon came up with the coble Lady Maude...
The Motor Fishing Coble Doris
DECEMBER 9TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. About 5.45 P.M . it was learned that the motor fishing coble Doris had not returned. On board was the lifeboat coxswain, George Leng, with a crew of three. It was very dark, with a rough sea and a...
District Conference: Greater London
A CONFERENCE of honorary workers from branches in the Greater London district was held at Life-boat House on 21st June. Representatives from sixteen branches and guilds were present, and Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution,...
Category: Meetings
How You Can Save By a Gift to the Institution
IT does not sound possible, but it i The following is a list of the cost of the is a fact that by making a large gift! different types of Life-boat and of these to the Institution during his life other parts of the equipment of the wealthy...
Category: Advertisement
Collisions at Sea. The Loss of the Princess Alice
THE year 1878 will long be remembered by the inhabitants of London as the year in which the passenger steamer Princess Alice was sunk in the Thames by collision with the Bywell Castle, with the loss of more than 600 persons, out of about 850...
Category: Articles
Beneath wind and wave
Sport diver and RNLI supporter Brian Minehane gets bitten by the maritime archaeology bug thanks to a sunken antique lifeboat …
I am an Irishman from Dublin, born in Kent, England, and who now...
Category: Articles
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30Th June, 1892
ONCE again the Board of Trade has issued its important and interesting Annual Blue Book, supplying all sorts of statistics and furnishing every possible information relative to the shipping casualties- and wrecks which take place each year...
Category: Articles