LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shamrock
At 5 A.M. on the 26th August the Coxswain of the Life-boat Mayheie Medwin received in- formation that there were no tidings of a small fishing yawl, the Shamrock, of Peel, which left Harbour at 10.30 A.M.
the previous day....
Lerwick: After Standing By the Listing Fred Everard All Night on Her Slow Progress Towards Lerwick Through Gale Force Winds As the List Increased the 52' Barnett Relief L
Lerwick: After standing by the listing Fred Everard all night, on her slow progress towards Lerwick through gale force winds, as the list increased, the 52' Barnett relief lifeboat Ramsay Dyce took off her chief engineer's wife and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
175 Years
A TIME TO PAUSE AND LOOK BACK AROUND THE BEGINNING of the nineteenth century 31 'Original' lifeboats built by Henry Greathead of South Shields were established in ports and harbours scattered all round the British Isles. Not a great...
Category: Articles
Planning ahead … together
At the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents’ Water Safety Congress in November, a new UK-wide database was launched that will allow the RNLI to share information easily with agencies including the Ambulance, Police, Fire and...
Category: Articles
Normanby Hall
TWENTY-NINE HOURS AT SEA Cloughey, Co. Down. At 8.25 a.m.
on 6th October, 1965, the coastguard reported that the coaster Normanby Hall had asked for assistance as she was aground off South Rock. The life-boat Constance...
Gramsbergen
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 2.26 early on the morning of the 27th of November, 1954, the coastguard tele- phoned that the motor vessel Grams- bergen, of Holland, had run ashore in Fishguard harbour. At 3.5 the life- boat White Star was...
Penlee
PENLEE, Friday February 14, 1986: at 0630 Penlee's 52 ft Arun class lifeboat, Mabel Alice, with Coxswain Ken Thomas at the helm, set out in a force 10 east by southerly storm and poor visibility. The Guernsey registered coaster, Roy... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Boys' Own and My Judith, Philander et al
NORTH-EAST DISTRICT Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 9.5 a.m.
on 22nd April, 1966, the assistant harbour master informed the honorary secretary that there were three cobles at sea, and the weather was deteriorating rapidly. He...
Life-Boat Workers Honoured
THE Royal National Life-boat Institution announced in January awards to voluntary workers who have devoted their time and energies to the life-boat service.
Highest award in the list, that of honorary life governor, given...
Category: Awards
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