LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Liberty Ship, The American Motor Vessel George Hawley
JANUARY 21ST. - SENNEN COVE, AND PENLEE, CORNWALL. At 3.15 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that the naval authorities wanted the Sennen Cove life-boat to go to a vessel four miles south-bywest of the Longships. A light northerly...
Captain William Sinclair Coxswain of the Kirkwall Lifeboat With the Station's New Arun Mickie Salvesen
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Captain William Sinclair, coxswain of the Kirkwall lifeboat, with the station's new Arun Mickie Salvesen. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Motor Fishing Vessels Breadwinner, Orient and Dolly Graham (1)
Eyemouth, and St. Abbs, Berwickshire.— At 10.7 in the morning, on the 24th of April, 1950, the Eyemouth life-boat authorities received a message from a Burnmouth fisherman that the motor fishing vessel Breadwinner, of Burn- mouth, was in...
The Steamers Haiti Victory and Duke of York
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—Early on the morning of the 6th of May, 1953, the United States steamer Haiti Victory collided with the British Railways passenger steamer Duke of York two miles east-south-east of the Galloper lightvessel. The...
Bridlington: Late on the Evening of Wednesday July 26 Arthur Dick the Honorary Secretary Saw a Small Trawler Pass the Harbour Entrance and Go Ashore on North Be
Bridlington: Late on the evening of Wednesday July 26 Arthur Dick, the honorary secretary, saw a small trawler pass the harbour entrance and go ashore on North Beach. The Harbour Office was informed and Bridlington's 37ft Oakley lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bembridge Coxswain, Peter Smith, Was Knocked Unconscious When He Was Thrown Against a Stanchion While the Life-Boat, Jesse Lumb Was Battling Against Heavy Seas on a Service Call to a Yacht in Distress
Bembridge Coxswain, Peter Smith, Was Knocked Unconscious When He Was Thrown Against a Stanchion While the Life-Boat, Jesse Lumb Was Battling Against Heavy Seas on a Service Call to a Yacht in Distress. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
"Light of All Nations" on the Goodwin Sands
THE following letter has been forwarded to the Committee of this Institution, to which, considering the great importance of the subject, and the apparent feasibility of the proposition, we give insertion, as we fully concur in Mr....
Category: Correspondence
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1868
THE RIGHT HON. H. T. L. CORRY, M.P., First Lord of the Admiralty, in the Chair.
1.—Moved by the Chairman :— 1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the Officers of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITOTION for the...
Category: Meetings
His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man (Major General Sir William Fry, K.C.V.O., C.B.) Speaking from the Ramsey Life-Boat on Life-Boat Day
His Excellency The Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man (Major General Sir William Fry KCVO CB). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
March
MARCH Launches 63. Lives rescued 75.
MARCH 3RD. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At about 5 P.M. an army officer and two non-commissioned officers launched an old boat, intending to punt in shallow water. They...
Category: Services