LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Salcombe - Tyne Class the Baltic Exchange Ii
Champagne bathes the bows of The Baltic Exchange lias Mrs David Frame, wife of the chairman of the Baltic Exchange releases the bottle to name the lifeboat. - View image in PDF
(Photo courtesy South Hams Photography). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Boy Eric
Exmouth, South Devon - At 10.7 p.m. on I2th June, 1966, it was reported that red flares had been sighted about two miles off Orcombe point. The lifeboat Michael Stevens left her moorings at 10.20 in a moderate to fresh south south easterly...
Venus of Preston
The schooner Venus, of Preston, whilst entering the port on the 20th October, late on the tide, during a strong westerly wind, struck on the Horse Bank, on which a good deal of sea was then running. The Life-boat Wakefield was then taken out...
Other IRB Launches
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 182, 792, and 201, the. following launches on service were made during the months March to May, 19673 inclusive: Abersoch,...
Category: Services
Dawn, of Grimsby
A similar service was performed by this boat on the 18th August, when the fishing smack Dawn of Grimsby, which had gone ashore in a bad sea, but fine weather, was also got afloat by having assistance, which, from the heavy surf, could not...
At Bridlington (Yorkshire) on the Same Day
At Bridlington (Yorkshire) on the Same Day The Motor Life-Boat Returning After Standing By Fishing Boats. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Last Bulletin
This is the last life-boat bulletin. The first appeared in September 1940 and it has appeared quarterly since then. Of the twenty-six bulletins published nearly a quarter of a million copies have been printed. The Institution's quarterly...
Category: Articles
The Irish Container Ship Bell Rover
Sick man taken off in gale AN IRISH CONTAINER SHIP, Bell Rover, contacted Dover coastguard on the evening of Tuesday November 20,1984, seeking medical advice about one of her crew members who was sick. After consultation with a doctor, the...
An Exhibition of Life-Boat Photographs
THE first exhibition of life-boat photographs to be held was shown in London in June and July. It consisted of upwards of seventy photographs taken all round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland. The photographs showed wrecks, the...
Category: Articles
Elizabeth, of Cardigan
On the 23rd March, during a heavy gale of wind, the smack Elizabeth, of Cardigan, got under weigh to cross the Bar, but in doing so, her jib sheet was blown away.
She then let go her two anchors; but the chains parted, and...