LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annual Meeting
This number of The Lifeboat is really the June number. It was almost ready to be printed when, towards the end of June, afire at the works of the Whitefriars Press, Tonbridge, destroyed nearly the whole of the type. The Committee of...
Category: Meetings
The Five Medallists Arrive at Tower Pier for a 'Photocall' on the Morning of the Presentation of Awards With Hms Belfast Providing the Backdrop
The five medallists arrive at Tower Pier for a 'photocall' on the morning of the presentation of awards, with HMS Belfast providing the backdrop.
They are (from left to right) Shane Coleman (Second Coxswain/Mechanic... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Norwegian Liner Braemar, of Oslo
Tynemouth, Northumberland - At 9 p.m. on 20th October, 1966, the honorary secretary intercepted a radio message from the Norwegian liner Braemar, of Oslo, requesting that a helicopter take off a sick man. The coastguard, however, was unable...
The Southern Railway Pleasure Steamer Southsea
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—On the 26th August, while the Southern Railway pleasure steamer Southsea was on a trip round the Isle of Wight, her engine broke down and she came to anchor off Bembridge Ledge. A strong S.E. breeze was blowing,...
A Rescue Off the Minquiers Reef
AT 3.10 early on the morning of the 15th of December, 1953, the harbour radio station reported that the motor vessel Brockley Combe, of Bristol, had wirelessed that she had struck the Minquiers Reef and needed help immediately. The Brockley...
Category: Services
The 14' Dejon Motor Cruiser Sandpiper
Sunken speed boat WHILE FISHING with rods and lines from a 14' Dejon motor cruiser, Sandpiper, anchored 150 yards off Tan-y-Bwlch beach, about half a mile south of Aberystwyth Harbour, on Sunday, July 6, 1975, Richard Wheeler and John...
Bertha James
At 3.15 P.M. on the 10th October the Coastguard reported that a vessel was flying a distress signal about three miles N.W. of the Shingles Bank. As a moderate north-easterly gale was blow- ing, the Life-boat Robert Fleming was launched. She...
The Re-Opening of Penarth Lifeboat
The re-opening of Penarth lifeboat station and the handing over of the new D class lifeboat took place on the Esplanade on Saturday August 8. Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston, a deputy chairman of the Committee of Management, first received... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gifts for the "Guide of Dunkirk"
The Durban Rangers and Guides sent to the crew of the Cadgwith lifeboat "Guide of Dunkirk" a big Christmas parcel with puddings, chocolate, sweets, preserves, dried fruits, soap, shaving brushes, razor blades, tooth-brushes,...
Category: Articles
Scarborough Lifeboat the 37Ft Oakley Amelia
Scarborough lifeboat, the 37ft Oakley Amelia, under the command of Coxswain Ian Firman, setting off soon after 1100 on January 26, 1984, to help the Fleetwood trawler Navena, which was making water and listing about nine miles north east of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs