LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Morag
Knockdown JUST AS Lytham-St Anne's lifeboat was being moored after returning from exercise at sea on Saturday afternoon, June 6, 1981, Liverpool Coastguard informed the station honorary secretary that an unconfirmed report had been...
Spectators Getting a Thrill at Port Isaac, Cornwall, When As Part of a Water Safety Demonstration the Local Irb Showed What It Could Do In a Rocky Situation.
Spectators getting a thrill at Port Isaac, Cornwall, when as part of a water safety demonstration the local IRB showed what it could do in a rocky situation.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Foreign Life-Boat Services. Rescues from British Vessels In 1935, and Numbers of the Fleets
Rescues from British Vessels in 1935, and Numbers of the Fleets.
DURING 1935 foreign life-boats went to the help of 22 British vessels. One of these services was by Belgium, 1 by Germany, 1 by Iceland, 3 by France, 3 by...
Category: Services
Two Men Washed Out of Life-Boat
Two members of the Teesmouth crew had a remarkable escape when they were washed out of the life-boat after she had gone to the help of an Indian steamer on I4th March, 1964.
At 9.40 that morning the honorary secretary of...
Category: Services
Sealink Ferries
Richard Gardner brandishes a cheque for £300 raised from his colleagues aboard the Sealink ferries Horsa, of which he is second officer, and St Christopher and members of the Dreamland Squash Club after taking part in a mini marathon... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
H.R.H. The Duke of Kent, K.G. (1)
Left to right: Mr. Ernest Brown, Minister of Labour, H.R.H. The Duke of Kent, Coxswain H. A. Griggs (Hythe), Mr. F C. Sanders (bowman at Torbay), Coxswain William Mogridge (Torbay).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Above: Some of the 80 Guests Arriving
Above: Some of the 80 guests arriving for the gala performance of 'The Merry Widow' at Holland Park in Kensington on 27 June 2001.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Canoes
RESCUES FROM CAPSIZED CANOES Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 2.40 on the afternoon of the 16th May, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two canoes, with two men in each, had overturned off Amroth...
Carrying on Though Crippled
IN the last issue of The Life-boat two cases were recorded of ladies who had continued their work for the life-boat service when crippled by serious acci- dents. There is a third to be added to them. Miss Silvester, the honorary secretary of...
Category: Articles
The Screw Steamer Rubens, of Liverpool
NEWHAVEN.— On the 17th January, soon after noon, the Life-boat Elizabeth, Soys was launched, and proceeded to the assistance of the screw steamer Rubens, of Liverpool, bound from Buenos Ayres to Antwerp, which vessel had gone ashore in a...