LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Kingfisher, Maureen and Good Cheer
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 8th of April, 1947, an easterly gale was blowing, with squalls of sleet, and heavy seas were breaking across the bay and harbour entrance.
Three local cobles, Kingfisher,...
Shoreline
THE ANNUAL ACCOUNTS submitted to the Institution's governors at the Royal Festival Hall in London on May 15 showed that Shoreline had contributed £934,400 to the RNLI's funds in 1983, an increase of more than £165,000. At...
Category: Articles
Falmouth's Severn Class Richard Cox Scott
Falmouth's Severn class Richard Cox Scott on exercise on a calm, sunny day. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Seventeen Hours In Gale. Five Were Rescued from Yacht
A SERVICE carried out in a northeasterly gale and lasting 17 hours has led to the unusual award of the collective thanks of the Institution on vellum to the coxswain and crew of the Arranmore life-boat. The service was to the yacht Espanola...
Category: Services
Constant Star
Fishing vessel aground AT 29 MINUTES PAST MIDNIGHT on Thursday, August 27, 1987, Moray Coastguard overheard the fishing vessel Constant Star inform Peterhead Harbour Control that she had run aground on the Skerry Rock and required immediate...
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INJURED YOUTH PICKED UP BY BOARDING BOAT Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At 3.20 on the afternoon of the 10th June, 1962, the police informed the honorary secretary that a young man had fallen over the cliffs two miles south of...
Noordpool
Five saved in 12-hour service to sinking trawler Number's Arun class Kenneth Thelwall was away from her station for 12 hours in winds up to Force 10 when a Belgian trawler started taking water to the NNE of the station on 12 November...
For Practical Experience a Community Service: Two Apprentices of the Training Workshops at Ici Fibres Pontypool Phil Oakley (Left) and Roy Robinson Undertook As Their
For practical experience, a community service: Two apprentices of the Training Workshops at ICI Fibres, Pontypool, Phil Oakley (left) and Roy Robinson, undertook as their project the viring-up and commissioning of the electrical I... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Thurso Caithness Life-Boat Pentland (Civil Service No 31) Heading for Scrabster on the North Coast of Scotland With the Upturned Longhope Orkney Life-Boat TGB
The Thurso, Caithness, life-boat Pent/and (Civil Service No. 31) heading for Scrabster on the north coast of Scotland with the upturned Longhope, Orkney, life-boat T.G.B. in tow. The photograph was taken on 18th March, 1969, by a Shackleton... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Stromness, Orkneys.—At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 5th of June, 1956, a doctor rang up to say he had attempted to visit a patient at Graemsay by fish- ing boat, but because of the rough sea the vessel had had to return to Strom- ness. As it...