LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rubber Collapsible Boat
OCT. 18TH. - WHITBY, AND RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE. The coastguard reported a vessel firing signals six miles north of Whitby.
A moderate N.E. wind was blowing with a choppy sea. At 7.45 P.M. the No. 1 motor life-boat was...
A Hundred Years Ago
An extract from The Life-boat, or Journal of the National Shipwreck Institution, July, 1854.
Ix the autumn of 1853, a new life-boat was stationed at Dover by the Dover Humane Society to replace their old one. This boat...
Category: Articles
Despite Forceful Persuasion the Raft Dear Lady Seems Reluctant to Enter the Water As the Only All-Lady Crew the Member of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Guild Were Competing In a Raft Race Org
Despite forceful persuasion the raft Dear Lady seems reluctant to enter the water.
As the only all-lady crew, the member of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston guild were competing in a raft race organised by Gorleston Chamber of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ceremonies
Naming and dedication Ceremonies - Wells-Next-The-Sea- Mersey Class Doris M Mann of Ampthill It was obvious as dawn broke on a cloudless and sunny summer's day on 17 July that everyone at Wells-next-the-Sea had pulled out all the stops...
Category: Inaugurations
Lifeboat Services
South East Division Sick man taken off in gale AN IRISH CONTAINER SHIP, Bell Rover, contacted Dover coastguard on the evening of Tuesday November 20,1984, seeking medical advice about one of her crew members who was sick. After consultation...
Category: Services
People and Places
Mr Rumbold serves up the winners Nicholas Smith, alias Mr Rumbold in the BBC television comedy programme 'Are You Being Served?', picked the winning tickets in the RNLI's 77th lottery on 30 April 1997.
Nicholas...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (126)
AUGUST 23RD. - CADGWITH, CORNWALL.
An R.A.F. aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £25 19s. 6d..
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Category: Advertisement
La Jeune Fanny, of St Marlo
During a strong southerly wind and heavy rain, on the 14th De- cember, signal guns were heard from the lightship in the Prince's Channel. The Quiver No. 1 life-boat, stationed at Margate, was launched, and proceeded across the Margate...
September (1)
EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE. About 11.30 in the morning of the 26th of May, 1944, the motor fishing boat Cecil Rhodes, with six men on board, caught fire while fishing some nine miles north-north-east of Eyemouth. A light westerly wind was...
Category: Services