LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tom Robertson, Celebrating 30 Years Continuous Service at Queensferry Lifeboat Station
Tom Robertson, celebrating 30 years continuous service at Queensferry lifeboat station. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Winifred and Onward
NOVEMBER 19TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. A southerly gale was blowing, the sea was rough, and all the local fishing boats had put back to harbour except two, the motor fishing boats Winifred, of Wexford, and Onward, of Rosslare. Each...
Alf
Epic rescue at RosslareA French trawler with five crew was drifting without power 14 mites south of Tuskar Rock Lighthouse on the south coast of Ireland so the Arun class Mabel Williams slipped her moorings at 2.37pm on 5 November...
Express Annie Brooks and Mary Ann
APPLEDORE, DEVON.—About 7 P.M. on the 4th April the Life-boat Hope was launched from this station during a strong breeze at W.N.W., and proceeded to the assistance of the schooners Express, Annie Brooks, and Mary Ann, which were wrecked on...
Davenport and Jenny Lemelin
On the 28th November the brig Davenport, of South Shields, was seen in a sinking state in Pake- field Gatway. The- Pakefield life-boat was at once launched; but before she could close with the vessel, the crew had taken to their long-boat,...
End of a Life-Boat Band
THE Blackpool life-boat band, which was founded in 1884, and was then the only life-boat band in the world, has now been disbanded. The idea of forming a band was conceived at a time when Blackpool had not yet become a popular holiday resort...
Category: Articles
People and Places
Since the last Annual Presentation of Awards Meeting, the Committee of Management has awarded 3 Honorary Life Governorships, 10 Bar to Gold Badges and 55 Gold Badges. Each of the following entries states the dates of the first and latest...
Category: Articles
Jenny
Beam trawler ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1977, at 2132, the 23-ton beam trawler Jenny reported on Channel 16 VHP that she was in difficulty and unable to manoeuvre in heavy weather some eight miles south south east of Nab...
Jenny
Ilfracombe, Devon - At 2 p.m. on 3ist August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser was in difficulties off Rillage point. The life-boat Lloyd's II was launched at 2.10. The tide was flooding. The life...
Annie
SALCOMBE.—On the 16th January, at 2 A.M., the barquentine Annie, of Salcombe, bound from Bahia with a cargo of sugar, struck on Salcombe Bar during stormy weather. The Rescue Life-boat went to her assistance and brought ashore the master and...