LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Jessie Brown, of Yarmouth
It was blowing fresh at S.E., on the 24th February, -when the schooner Jessie Brown, of Yarmouth, from Yarmouth to Belfast, got ashore on Scroby Sand. The Life-boat 'Leicester launched just before dark, and succeeded in bring- ing on...
Last October Jimmy Savile Qbe Received the Public Relations Statuette Awarded to Him for His Most Valuable Help to the Lifeboat Service from Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston a Deputy Chairma
Last October, Jimmy Savile, QBE, received the public relations statuette awarded to him for his most valuable help to the lifeboat service from Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston, a deputy chairman of the Institution. The presentation was made... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dotherel, British Defiance, Star in the East, and Hannah
SUNDERLAND.—At about 10 A.M. on the 22nd November, the fishing-boats Dotherel, British Defiance, Star in the East, and Hannah, were observed in distress about three miles S.E. of Sunderland during a strong E.S.E. wind and a rough sea. The...
The French Fishing Boat Notre Dame des Victoires (1)
Fenit, and Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 3rd of May,1956, the Dingle Civic Guard tele- phoned the Fenit life-boat station to sav that two men were stranded on a high ledge of a cliff under the old tower at Ballydavid...
The Lobster Fishing Boat
STROMNESS, ORKNEY.—A small lobster fishing-boat, while out at sea to the west of Hoy Head on the morning of the 22nd April, was caught in a sudden gale from S.E. On the matter being reported to the Honorary Secretary, he at once despatched...
68 Years In the Life-Boat Service
THE Institution has awarded a certifi- cate of service to Joseph Rourke, of Howth, co. Dublin, and has also made him a compassionate grant. He was born in 1854 and became a member of the Howth crew in 1870,-at the age of sixteen. He served...
Category: Awards
Lifeboats Live on In Oz
Lifeboats live on in Oz Ex-Arun lifeboat, Spirit of Tayside, was sold to the Royal Volunteer Coastal Patrol and placed on station at Port Stephens, New South Wales in September. This picture was taken as the boat was being lifted out of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Westward Ho, of Torquay
DECEMBER 5TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At 11.5 at night the Brixham coastguard reported that a vessel, anchored about a quarter of a mile north of Brixham breakwater, was making distress signals. A northerly breeze was blowing, and the sea was rough...
Isabella, of Aberdeen
On the 15th June, a messenger on horseback arrived at An- strother from Fifeness, having been de- spatched for the life-boat by the coastguard there, in consequence of observing a brigan- tine with her foretopmast and topgallant- mast gone,...
Boy Arthur
At 6.15 P.M.
on the 4th October, it was reported to the Coxswain of the No. 1 Life-boat Alfred Carry, that a small boat was driving south in front of the town with two persons on board. As a fresh easterly wind was blowing...