LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Danish Gas Tanker Inga Tholstrup
Gas tanker aground A DANISH GAS TANKER, Inga Tholstrup, ran aground on Craig Waugh, two miles south east of Inchkeith in the Firth of Forth, early in the morning of Monday November 10, 1986. Forth Coastguard alerted Dunbar lifeboat station,...
Furry Monster Spotted on Torbay Lifeboat
Friendly Mascot Morris from the Landscove and St Mary's Bay holiday complexes was a special visitor to the Torbay lifeboat.
From April to October, the Brixham lifeboat guild sells grand draw tickets at the holiday... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Margaret Herd
CREW RESCUED At 4.25 a.m. on 9th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Margaret Herd was ashore near Fraserburgh.
Later the coastguard reported that red flares had been...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BIDEFORD.—A new life-boat 34 feet long, and fitted to row either with six oars singlebanked, or twelve short oars double-banked, has been placed at Appledore, near Bideford, in lieu of a smaller one previously there. The cost of the boat was...
Category: Articles
Ladybird
Yacht on rocks A RADIO MESSAGE at 0924 on Thursday July 15, 1982, reported that a yacht was aground in the area of the Western Carracks, three miles west of St Ives. The honorary secretary of St Ives lifeboat station immediately assembled...
Fisher Boy
Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 8.30 on the evening of the 4th of October, 1954, the Wick coastguard telephoned that the motor fishing boat Fisher Boy had run ashore at Brimsness. At 8.45, at low water, the life-boat //. C. J. was launched. The...
The Duchess Is Pictured Above Unveiling A Bronze Bust Of Whitby’s Most Famous Lifeboatman Henry Freeman
The Duchess of Kent opened the new lifeboat station at Whitby on 7 September. She also named the station’s latest D class inshore lifeboat OEM Stone III. Photo: RNLI/Tony Roddam. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Recycling raises £185,000
You can do your bit for the planet while raising funds for the RNLI. Recycle your old mobile phones, printer cartridges and gadgets (such as satnavs and digital cameras) with The Recycling Factory, and the company will make a donation to the...
Category: Articles
Your Letters
A letter from The Queen Mother Brian Miles. RNLI Director for the past 11 years, retired at the end of 1998.
HM The Queen Mother wrote to Brian in October to offer her best wishes and congratulations on a job well...
Category: Correspondence
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
THE fishwives of Cullercoats this year collected £148 9s. 8d. on their life-boat day in July, although, with the life-boat station temporarily closed since the wreck of the Cullercoats life-boat last April, it could not be held as usual...
Category: Articles