LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Inset: the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight
Inset: The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight salutes the fleet with the evocative sight and sound of Lancaster, Spitfire and Hurricane.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Ketch and the Shrimper Marjorie
At about 10 A.M. on the 20th April, a ketch was seen to miss stays and run aground on Taylors Bank, and as the cone had just been hoisted denoting a gale might be expected, the Life-boat John andHenrietta was launched and proceeded to...
A Difficult Tow In a South-East Gale
ON the 20th of January, 1954, the fishing yawl Poseidon, of Rothesay, left North Shields to fish off Eyemouth.
Early on the morning of the 22nd of January the crew of four found they could not start the engines. They were...
Category: Services
The Dutch Fishing Smack Nooit Polmakt
MONTROSE, N.B.—On the 21st July 1879 the Mincing Lane Life-boat rendered some assistance to the Dutch fishing-smack Nooit Polmakt, which had gone too far to the northward while running for the harbour, and had stranded on the Annat Bank...
Few Lifeboathouses Are Protected By a Castle! Conwy's Built In 1985 Is on the Tourist Trail
Few Lifeboathouses Are Protected By A Castle! Conwy's Built In 1985 Is on the Tourist Trail. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Fishing Steamers Salamander and Queenborough
FENIT (TRALEE BAY), Co. K«BBY.—The Life-boat John Willmot was launched at 1 P.M. on the 19th April and proceeded to the fishing steamer Salamander which had stranded on a dangerous reef of rocks in Brandon Bay in a dense...
The Silver Scale, of North Sunderland
SEPTEMBER 2ND. - NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 3.59 in the afternoon information was received from the coastguard that a fishing coble was on fire two miles east of Cullernose Point. A light southerly wind was blowing and the sea was...
Light of The Haren, of Whistable
On the 15th August the Lowestoft'life- boat again went off', in reply to signals of distress from the brigantine Light of the Harem, of Whitstable, which had struck on Gorton Spit during a strong gale of wind and heavy sea. The...
The Training Brig James J. Bibby
NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE, and FORMBY, LANCASHIRE.—Shortly before 9 P.M. on the 12th August, a telephone message was received at New Brighton, stating that the training brig, James J.
Bibby, of Liverpool, was ashore on...
During the Recent Golden Wonder Promotion
During the recent Go/den Wonder promotion where money, in exchange for tokens from crisp packets, was donated to the RNLI, the pupils of Chennestone Middle School, Sunbury- on-Thames, collected 1,500 tokens. At a rate of 5p donated for every... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs