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An Empty Tug

Date: June 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 326

Tynemouth, Northumberland, and Sunderland, Co. Durham.—18th February. An empty tug had broken away from a tow, but was picked up by a steamer.—• Rewards, Tynemouth, £22 3s. 6d.; Sunderland, £19 5s. 3d..

The Ilb Arrives

Date: Summer 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 557

The ILB arrives and gets a line around Mr Steward but then finds itself unable to pull away as water threatens to swamp the lifeboat. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

A Barge

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

NOVEMBER 28TH. - WALMER, KENT. A barge, with no one on board, had broken away from her moorings, but was towed in by a tug. - Rewards, £14 17s..

G.C.B.

Date: April 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 349

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—In the morn- ing of the 9th of December, 1948, a strong southerly gale was blowing.

At 8.35 a barge was seen to be in diffi- culty three-quarters of a mile west of the pier, and the motor life-boat...

A Rescue In a Snow-Storm

Date: March 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 325

Bronze-Medal Service at Fraserburgh. SHORTLY before two o'clock in the morning of 18th January the Aberdeen trawler Evergreen, outward bound, with a crew of nine, went ashore in a snow- storm between Sandhaven and Rose- hearty, four...

Category: Services

The Ex-Ship's Life-Boat Herald D.

Date: Summer 1990

Volume: 51

Issue: 513

Lifeboat and casualty swept by breakers during rescue The Director of the RNLI has written to the Cullercoats station congratulating the Helmsman, Robert Oliver, and the crew of the C class inflatable. The letter followed a service to an...

The S.S. Canada

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

Nov. 3RD. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.

During the afternoon the S.S. Canada, of Copenhagen, bound for Hull, was badly holed by enemy action when twenty miles north-east of the Humber, and one of her holds filled with water....

Rescue

Date: Autumn 2018

Volume: 61

Issue: 625 Lifeboat Magazine Autumn 2018

Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards carry out thousands of rescues every year. Here are just some of those caught on camera, and see the list below for more reports:
6 APPLEDORE | PAGE 10
7 PORTHTOWAN/PERRANPORTH | PAGE...

Category: Articles

Girl Power

Date: Spring 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 552

Mention the words 'Girl Power' and you probably think of the pop group, Spice Girls! So what has 'Girl Power' got to do with the RNLI? In the early days of the lifeboat service, women either helped to raise funds or to...

Category: Articles

Esmeralda

Date: February 1910

Volume: 21

Issue: 235

— At about 8.30 AM. on the 7th July the Coxswain of the Life-boat observed signals of distress flying from a ketch on the east side of Fishguard Bay, near the-Needles Rock. There was a fresh N.N.W. breeze and heavy ground sea at the time....