LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Stralsund
On the 9th De- j cember, at 11 P.M., the ship Stralsund, of Stralsund, was driven on a ledge of rocks east of Kimeridge. A heavy storm and dark night did not prevent the crew of the Mary Heape Life-boat, which is one of the smallest on the...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The new Life-boat Queen Victoria, sent by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION to Bembridge, and named after Her Majesty THE QUEEN by H.E.H. the Duchess of EDINBURGH, on the 25th of July last, is a beautiful...
Category: Articles
Ilfracombe - Mersey Class Spirit of Derbyshire
llfracombe's new Mersey class lifeboat Spirit of Derbyshire on the slipway ready for her naming ceremony on 29 September 1990 (Photo Jeff Morris). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Janis
BembridgB, Isle of Wight—At 2.29 on the afternoon of the 25th of May, 195.7, 'the Foreland- coastguard tele- phoned that ; the > yacht Janis, of Bosham, was making little headway a mile and a half south-west of Ventnor pier but was...
Profiles
FOR SEVENTY YEARS Mrs Olwyn M.
Lloyd, now in her ninetieth year—just 60 years younger than the RNLI—has been concerned with men of the sea. It seems fitting, therefore, that she and her husband, Mr R. M. Lloyd, celebrated...
Category: Articles
Two Pals and Boy Ben
JULY 13TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. At 12.15 P.M. the coastguard at Fairlight reported that two small fishing boats were missing. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea, but the weather was getting worse, and at 12.30 P.M. the...
An Inflatable Dinghy (1)
Two ILBs search A SMALL INFLATABLE DINGHY in which it was thought there were two boys and which appeared to be in difficulty 600 yards off Southerness Light was reported to Silloth ILB station by Ramsey Coastguard at 1819 on Wednesday May 2;...
Basil Hutchinson
Basil Hutchinson Former organising secretary midlands, who retired in 1982, on 16 January.
Category: Obituaries
High Seas
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
North Berwick-Scotland Division Perched on the promentary at the very end of the Firth of Forth (seen stretching away in to the distance) North Berwick can be a rough place...
Category: Articles
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
Abersoch, Caernarvonshire. — On the 29th June Mr. William Owen saw a small sailing boat capsize and ran and told two boatmen, who put out in a motor boat. They found two men and a woman clinging to the keel in an exhausted condition,...
Category: Services