LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Converted Ship's Boat Curlew
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 1.25 on the morning of the 8th of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two boats had left Tobermory to search for a converted ship's boat, which had broken down off Mingary,...
Ebor Abbey
Dunbar, Haddingtonshire, and St.
Andrews, Fifeshire.—On the 27th De- cember the steam trawler Ebor Abbey, of Aberdeen, ran aground on the Carr Rocks, Fife Ness, while bound with a crew of nine to Granton for bunker coal.<...
A Motor Boat
DRIFTING BOAT TAKEN IN TOW Dover, Kent. At 3.19 on the afternoon of the 10th June, 1962, a message was received by the honorary secretary from the eastern arm signal station that an outboard motor boat had broken down off Kingsdown near St....
A Flying Boat
OCT. 13TH. - ST. MARY’S, SCILLY ISLES. The coastguard had reported a message from the R.A.F. that a flying boat had come down approximately fifty miles to the west of Scilly Isles, but shortly after the life-boat was launched she was...
A Boat (1)
Walmer, Kent.—At 12.50 on the after- noon of the 12th of May, 1957, the Deal coastguard reported that a small boat needed help one mile south-east of the coastguard station. At one o'clock the life-boat, Thomas Markby, on temporary duty...
The Cullercoats Motor Life-Boat
APRIL 22ND. - TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
The Cullercoats motor lifeboat had capsized on exercise, but the Tynemouth life-boat was unable to find any of her crew, six of whom were lost.-Rewards, £9 3s. (A full account...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE.— In response to signals of distress from a vessel at anchor on the north-west side of the Hugo Bank, the Life- boat Charlie Medland was launched shortly after 3 P.M. on the 5th January.
They...
Category: Services
Above the Lifeboat In Which He Carried Out the Rescue
above, the lifeboat in which he carried out the rescue, Charles Biggs, and her crew photographed two days after the event.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
RNLI FAMILY: THE LIFE OF THE CHARITY
Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
Happy retirement, Elsie
Elsie Miller, Honorary Secretary at Ramsgate RNLI, is stepping down from her role after celebrating an impressive 64 years of volunteering at...
Category: Articles
The Voyage. By Alfred Tennyson, Esq.
WE left behind the painted buoy" That tosses at the harbour-mouth; And madly danced our hearts with joy, As fast we fleeted to the South; How fresh was every sight and sound On open main or winding shore ! We knew the merry world was...
Category: Poetry