LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Focus on . . . St. Abbs
St. Abbs life-boat station still holds the record for the longest service by one of the Institution's life-boats. This was achieved by the previous life-boat W. Ross Macanhur of Glasgow when she stood by the Swiss cargo ship Nyon for 11...
Category: Articles
Roving Commission: the Rnli Mobile Training Unit Brings Up-To-The-Minute Radio Information to Lifeboat Crews
A WINTER EVENING. Cloud building up.
The south-west wind coming in over the Bristol Channel, moderate to fresh, rising . . .
'All lifeboats—Barry Coastguard— this is Barry Dock number one lifeboat —/...
Category: Articles
The Duke of Atholl a Deputy Chairman of the Rnli Called at Three Lifeboat Stations Skegness Withernsea and Humber and Met Many Voluntary Fund Raisers When H
The Duke of Atholl, a Deputy Chairman of the RNLI, called at three lifeboat stations, Skegness, Withernsea and Humber, and met many voluntary fund raisers when he visited the North East in March. On his tour, starting from district HQ and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Brett and Amy Lifeguarding In Australia
Brett and Amy lifeguarding in Australia. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishing Boats
Cromer, Norfolk. By noon, on 2yth November, 1965, the weather had deteriorated considerably and as five local fishing boats were still at sea it was decided to assemble the crew of the No. 2 life-boat. The life-boat William Henry and Mary...
The First of the 1909 Silver Medal Services at Fraserburgh: the Lifeboat Anna Maria Lee Is Manoeuvered In Close to the Fishing Boat Henry and Elizabeth of Nairn Be
The first of the 1909 silver medal services at Fraserburgh: the lifeboat Anna Maria Lee is manoeuvered in close to the fishing boat Henry and Elizabeth of Nairn before her six remaining crew are pulled to safety.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Motor Fishing Vessels Elizabeth Taylor and Incentive
Whitby, Yorkshire. — About 8.45 on the night of the 28th of September, 1951, news was picked up by wireless that two fishing boats had been in collision eight miles off Whitby to the east. They needed help; and at nine o'clock the No. 1...
Ernani , H.M.S. Holdfast and Steamer Premuda
JANUARY 16TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT.
At 7 P.M. a message was received from the Ramsgate coastguard that the Italian steamer Ernani had collided with the Brake Light-vessel, and that the light-vessel was in danger of sinking. At...
Margaret Anna
Amble, Northumberland.—At 1.55 on the afternoon of the 19th of February, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that the local fishing boat Margaret Anna was still at sea in bad weather.
At 3.15 the life-boat J. W. Archer was...
The Annual Meetings
The RNLI's Annual Meetings for 1995, held on 18 May, took place at a new venue in London - the Barbican Centre in the City.
The move from the South Bank Centre was a break with the tradition of the past few years and...
Category: Meetings