LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
People and Places
Drawing the crowds The RNLI's 67th national lottery draw took place at the Institution's Poole headquarters on Monday 31 October 1994 when Miss Millvina Dean, aged 82 and the youngest survivor of the Titanic tragedy, drew the winning...
Category: Articles
Leeds and Mary Watkins
DUNWICH.—The Ann Ferguson Lifeboat put off at 11.55 A.M. on the 24th July, during a fresh S.W. wind and a rough sea, and proceeded to the assistance of the schooner Leeds, of and from Goole for London, laden with a cargo of fire-bricks and...
An Aeroplane (24)
MAY 3 l ST. - MARGATE, KENT. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, three miles south-east of Ramsgate, but the life-boat found nothing. - Rewards, £12 18s..
Scarborough Lifeboat the 37Ft Oakley Amelia
Scarborough lifeboat, the 37ft Oakley Amelia, under the command of Coxswain Ian Firman, setting off soon after 1100 on January 26, 1984, to help the Fleetwood trawler Navena, which was making water and listing about nine miles north east of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 31st December, 1956 80,578 Notes of the Quarter THE year 1956 was one in which greater...
Category: Articles
A Vessel (16)
DECEMBER 31ST. - BALLYCOTTON, CO.
CORK. Signals of distress had been made by a vessel, but before the life-boat reached her she signalled again that she did not need help and the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards, £13...
At a Coffee Evening Held to Mark the Retirement of Erdington
At a coffee evening held to mark the retirement of Erdington, Birmingham, branch honorary treasurer Mr H. Higton, seen here (I.) shaking hands with chairman Reginald Wood, £60 was raised; this brought the branch's takings to a very... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
CAPSIZE IN THE THAMES
The crew at Chiswick on the River Thames is one of our busiest – and in October 2016 they knew it wouldn’t be long before they were called on for the 3,000th time. But who would need their help?
Crew Members Gavin Simmons...
Category: Articles
None (11)
At 5 p.m. on 7th February, 1967, news was received that a sick man had to be taken to hospital at South Uist. The sick man was taken on board the life-boat R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 3. The life-boat slipped her moorings at 5.30 and proceeded to...
Your Letters
Famous five In May 1995 I was rescued by Swanage lifeboat, with a helicopter and an inshore Atlantic standing by, from a yacht aground on the Kimmeridge ledge off the coast of Dorset. The tide was falling and the yacht in danger of breaking...
Category: Correspondence