LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A New Civil Service Life-Boat
A NEW motor life-boat, the gift of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, has been completed this year and stationed at Walmer, Kent. There are now six motor life-boats on the coast built out of the Fund—three on the English coast, at Walmer and...
Category: Inaugurations
The Hamble Inshore Rescue Boat and another Boat
Boarding boat rescue from saltings REQUESTING THE LAUNCHING of Calshot lifeboat at 2207 on Thursday, January 29, HM Coastguard told the honorary secretary that at 2054 a red flare had been reported in Ashlett Creek and. in view of the very...
Margaret and Ann
NAIRN.—The fishing-yawl Margaret and Ann was seen in the bay, about five hundred yards east of Nairn harbour, in a critical position, while a gale was blowing from the S.W. and a high sea was running, at about 1 P.M. on the 27th June. She...
A Nimrod Maritime Jet Aircraft of R.A.F. Strike Command Flying Over the Pentland Firth When the New Longhope Life-Boat (Centre), Which Is a 48-Foot 6-Inch Solent, Was Escorted to Her New Station
A Nimrod maritime jet aircraft of R.A.F. Strike Command flying over the Pentland Firth when the new Longhope life-boat (centre), which is a 48-foot 6-inch Solent, was escorted to her new station by (in the lead) 52-foot reserve life-boat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
People and Places
Lottery Draw The winning tickets for the 63rd national lottery were drawn at RNLI headquarters on Sunday 31 October 1993 by Peter Jones, chairman of the Civil Service Motoring Association and Colin Frizzell, chairman of Frizzell Financial...
Category: Articles
The S.S. White Toft
APRIL 29TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 4.10 P.M. the coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore at Robin Hood’s Bay, six miles to the south of Whitby. There was a dense fog, with a light S.E. wind and a strong ground swell....
Padstow Naming Ceremony
H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, deputising for his mother, the late Princes Marina, Duchess of Kent, President of the R.N.L.I., named the new Padstow life-boat James and Catherine Macfarlane, a 48-foot 6-inch Oakley, on 19th July,...
Category: Inaugurations
Surf and turf
On 4 August 2010, Sue went to dinner at a house rented by some visitors. She says: ‘As I walked back home about 1am along a narrow track, I turned my ankle and heard the bone snap. I had to inch my way up the steep hill back to the house,...
Category: Articles
Stolwijk
GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT ARRANMORE DECEMBER 7TH. - ARRANMORE, CO. DONEGAL. In the early morning a message was received at the lifeboat station on Arranmore Island, off the north-west coast of Ireland, that a vessel, in convoy, had gone on a...
From Ascension Island
THE following letter comes from the manager of the station of the Eastern Telegraph Company, on that remote spot in the South Atlantic, Ascension Island : " As a result of the receipt of your booklet, The Story of the Life-boat, I had...
Category: Correspondence