LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fishery Cruiser Norna
LONG STAND-BY At 7.20 a.m. on 25th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the fishery cruiser Norna was being blown ashore at Loch Shell but did not require immediate help. There was a rough sea with a strong...
Braced for Action: Lt Alan Tate Strapped In and Ready for the Next Wave
Braced For Action: Lt Alan Tate Strapped In and Ready For The Next Wave. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Twenty-One West Sussex Businessmen Took Part In a Sponsored Cycle Ride from Littlehampton to Rustington and Back In October In Aid of the RNLI the Only Unusual T
Twenty-one West Sussex businessmen took part in a sponsored cycle ride from Littlehampton to Rustington and back in October, in aid of the R.N.L.I. The only unusual thing was that all were on one cycle, said to be the largest in the world,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Hauxley Launchers
This was the last exercise launch of the pulling and sailing life-boat Mary Andrew, before the station was temporarily closed on 17th January, 1939, when the Amble station was reopened, as an experiment, with a motor life-boat. Hauxley will... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Stanlake
JANUARY 16TH. - SUNDERLAND, DURHAM.
A vessel was seen to be very near the Whitburn Steel Rocks, flying distress signals.
An E.N.E. gale was blowing, with snow squalls. The sea was rough. At 10.20...
(Above) Presenting the Duchess of Kent With a Posy
(Above) Presenting the Duchess of Kent with a posy before the Wells naming ceremony was a big event for Storm Force member Melissa Walker, daughter of Coxswain/ Mechanic Graham Walker.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cuba of Whitby
On the night of the 25th October, at 9 P.M., the brig Cuba, of Whitby, was driven ashore in a heavy gale off Winterton.
The life-boat was got ready soon after mid- night, but the night being dark, and the sea very heavy,...
Stories of a Life-Boat Day
ST. ALBANS, Hertfordshire, has the distinction of the help of many of its ex-mayors and ex-mayoresses on its life-boat day. Last autumn no fewer than six mayors and six mayoresses took part in the appeal. It also had among its collectors two...
Category: Articles
Around the Coast—And Inland
THE PRESENTATION of a cheque for more than £50,000 by the Lord Mayor of Cardiff to the Duke of Atholl, chairman of the Institution, was reported in the summer issue of THE LIFEBOAT. It was the amount raised up till that time by the...
Category: Articles
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...