LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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...
Ranger of Lune
St. David's, Pembrokeshire - At 2.56 a.m. on 24th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Ranger of Lune was in difficulties ten miles north-west of South Bishop's rock, as her engine had broken down....
The S.S. Letchworth
NOVEMBER 1ST. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA.
ESSEX. At 2.45 P.M. the coastguard at the pier head telephoned that a ship was in distress near the Mouse Light-vessel. A fresh wind was blowing. At 3.5 P.M. the motor life-boat Greater...
The Berwick Life-Boat
The Life-boat Grace Darling was launched on the 3rd February to assist the crew of the Berwick-on-Tweed Life- boat to make the Holy Island Harbour safely.
The Berwick Life-boat had put off in a strong northerly gale and...
The S.S. Mogador
BRANCASTER, NORFOLK.—At daybreak on the 10th August, while a moderate N.E. breeze was blowing, with considerable ground swell, the s.s. Mogador, of London, was seen about nine miles north of Brancaster.
She showed no signal...
Harbour Life-Boats and the Life-Preserving Apparatus
WE are desirous of calling the attention of Commissioners of harbours, docks, and piers to the following clauses of an Act of Parliament, relative to the providing of life-boats and the life-preserving apparatus by the undertakers of such...
Category: Articles
Meet Miss Penlee Lifeboat 1986
Meet Miss Penlee Lifeboat 1986. She is the first in what the local branch hope will be a succession of beauties, all of whom will help promote local RNLI activities. Karen Bennetts was chosen from many contestants at a special fund raising... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs. Lawrence Glen at the Wheel of the Girvan Life-Boat
Behind Mrs. Glen is the Duke of Montrose.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Industrial Training Brigantine Polly
The Coast- guard reported at 3.10 A.M. on the 30th May that a vessel was ashore on the Gunwalloe Beach and within twenty minutes' time the Life-boat John Francis White was on her way to assist her. The weather was moderate but thick at...
Three Medal Services. Donna Nook, Lincolnshire; Humber, Yorkshire; Gorleston, Suffolk
ON 25th November, just before eight o'clock in the morning, the Donna Nook Life-boat went out in answer to signals of distress. The conditions could not have been worse. A whole gale was blowing from the north. A tremendous sea was...
Category: Medals