LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Admiralty Drifter and Rosa (1)
DEC. 13TH. - BLYTH, AND TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND, AND SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. An Admiralty drifter had been blown up by enemy action, but Blyth life-boat could find no survivors.
She was then directed to a position where...
Lifeboat Services
LIFEBOAT STAYS WITH CASUALTY FOR MORE THAN EIGHT HOURS Help for disabled MFV in severe gale force winds Whitby's relief Tyne class lifeboat Owen and Ann Aisher was on service for some 12 hours on 3 April 1990 when three fishing vessels...
Category: Services
New Committee of Management Members
THE Committee of Management of the Institution welcomes five new mem- bers.
Rear-Admiral K. St. B. Collins, C.B., O.B.E., D.S.C., R.N. (Retd.), was Hydrographer of the Navy from 1955 to 1960, when he retired from the Royal...
Category: Committee
Cdr Ralph Swann CBE
It is with deep regret that the Institution reports the death on 23 April 1992 of Cdr Ralph Swann CBE, a life vice president and former Chairman of the RNLI, at the age of 87.
Cdr Swann first joined the Institution's...
Category: Obituaries
An Aeroplane (28)
JULY 21ST. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
During the evening of the 20th the life-boat crew were assembled as an aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the call was cancelled. Later flashes were reported and the...
An Aeroplane (15)
MAY 31ST. - CLOVELLY, DEVON. About 1.30 in the afternoon a message was received from the Hartland Point coastguard that an aeroplane had dived into the sea three miles north of Sharp Nose Point. A moderate gale was blowing, with a rough sea....
Weston-Super-Mare: the Cave on the South Side of Brean Down from Which Three Trapped Boys Were Rescued on November 12; on That Day a Full Southerly Gale Was B
Weston-super-Mare: The cave on the south side of Brean Down from which three trapped boys were rescued on November 12; on that day a full southerly gale was blowing and there was a rough sea with breaking surf. For this service the thanks of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Relief Whitby Lifeboat Owen and Ann Aisher
The relief Whitby lifeboat Owen and Ann Aisher meets heavy seas as she goes to the aid of the MFV Sophie Louise, visible between her bow and the pier head, after the vessel's rudder had jammed while attempting to enter the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Daisy
TEN SURVIVORS PICKED UP FROM RAFTS Longhope, and Stronsay, Orkneys. At 3.7 on the afternoon of the 4th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the Stronsay honorary secretary that the motor vessel Daisy of Peterhead had sunk and that her crew...
An Aeroplane (26)
MARCH 1ST. - BUCKIE, AND WHITEHILLS, BANFFSHIRE. A German aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but the crew got ashore by rubber dinghy in the darkness, unseen by the life-boats. - Rewards : Buckie, £11 14s. ; Whitehills, £15...