LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Raft
SURVIVORS FROM RAFT LANDED Humber, Yorkshire. At 5.51 on the morning of the 17th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Scampton had picked up a man and a woman from a raft about 40 miles...
The S.S. Tanafjord (1)
MARCH 15TH. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE, AND CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE.
At 3.50 P.M. the coastguard telephoned to Girvan that a ship was ashore on Ailsa Craig A moderate southerly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The life-boat...
The Latvian Steamer Taut Mila
JANUARY 29TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, AND CROMER, NORFOLK.
News was received at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston that an open boat containing sixteen survivors from the Latvian steamer Taut Mila, which had been damaged...
Prize Winning Essay
A competition open to secondary schoolboys and schoolgirls under the age of sixteen for an essay on the subject of the Life-boat Service was held again last year.
The subject set was: "Why does our country need a...
Category: Articles
Feature: First Impressions
The week of The Queen's visit saw Castletownbere lifeboat crew immersed in training at the College. They were getting to grips with their new Severn class Lifeboat, Annette Mutton, and so were on hand to aid Her Majesty's departure....
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Services In 1896
Lives saved.
Adeline, cutter, of Great Yar- mouth 1 Agder, barque, of Frederickstadt 4 Aire, schooner, of Goole 4 Aldafro«,of Aberporth—landed 2.
Albert, steam-tug, of Chester— rendered...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 11th October, 1906. SIR EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and Correspondence, and...
Category: Committee
The Shrimping Lugger Faith
LOWESTOFT.— The shrimping lugger Faith, of Lowestoft, when near the East Newcome buoy, reaching in towards the land, on the 19th March, had her sails blown away by a sudden squall.
The occurrence was witnessed by the...
The Tacht Bari
D class inflatable saves two from lee shore in near gale Helmsman Alan Attrill of Bembridge inshore lifeboat has been accorded the RNLFs Thanks on Vellum following the rescue last August of three people from a yacht aground on Bembridge...
The Dutch MV Roelofbuisman Stranded at Straight Point Exmouth on 23Rd March 1968 When the Exmouth Life-Boat Stood By
The Dutch m.v, RoelofBuisman stranded at Straight Point, Exmouth, on 23rd March, 1968, when the Exmouth life-boat stood by.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs