LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
With the Widow of Coxswain Patton, of Runswick
At the annual meeting in 1934 after presenting to Mrs. Fatten the gold medal posthumously awarded to her husband for his gallantry in sacrificing his own life to save a lame man from the sinking steamer Disperser of West Hartlepool, on... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Whaley Bridge Branch
The Whaley Bridge branch committee members and their spouses await the arrival of 500 local people who, over the last 12 years, have supported their annual ploughman's lunch held in the barn and grounds of Mrs A Leonard, the branch... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Save-A-Can for the Lifeboatman
Save-a-can for the lifeboatman. Eight-year old conservationists Paula Kelly and Mark Chapman are among 84 pupils at Gilberdyke school who collected empty tins as part of a fund raising effort for the lifeboat service. The cans went to a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dressed for the Job...
Dressed for the job...
Suitably attired, for the lifeboat if not for their surroundings, youngsters four-year-old Lucie Polwin, her brother Ben (10) and sister Hannah (8) (right), helped their parents on flag day in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Macedonia and the Robert Stevenson
On the 4th August this Life-boat was again launched to the assistance of the brigs Macedonia, of Blyth, bound from Havana to Peterhead, and the Robert Stevenson, of Shields, from Archangel to London, which vessels, having been caught in a...
A Storm Force Rally Was Part of the Celebrations of the 25Th Anniversary of the Worcester Ladies' Lifeboat Guild the Mersey Class Royal Shiphght Made Her Way I
A Storm Force Rally was part of the celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the Worcester Ladies' Lifeboat Guild. The Mersey Class Royal Shiphght made her way inland to the Worcester Rowing Club quay for the occasion.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sumner Life-Boat Brigade
WE feel sure that our readers will be interested in the illustration of the Sumner Life-boat and her crew, which we have received " with their compli- ments and good wishes." For some years past the Institution has been in friendly...
Category: Articles
Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part III: Plated Up
THE STEEL HULL of the fast slipway lifeboat is built upside down, so that the welder can look down on his work, both making the work easier and also making it possible for him to achieve the best results: the integrity and strength of the...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Helmsdale
Holy Island, Northumberland. - - At X.15 P.M. on the 19th July, 1939, a message was received from the Seahouses coastguard that distress signals had been heard from the direction of Longstone Lighthouse. A light easterly breeze was blowing,...
The S.S. Dresden
— The s.s.
Dresden, of Hartlepool, whilst bound from Hamburg to Hartlepool with a general cargo, struck on the Longscar Rocks at 11.30 P.M. on the 9th April.
In response to her signals the No. 2 Life-boat...