LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The first Life-boat service rendered this year was that per- formed on the morning of the 1st January last, by the Life-boat Fair Maid of Perth, placed on this station a few months pre- viously ; and it was also the first occasion the boat...

Relief Brede: Champagne breaks over the bow of the 33ft Brede relief lifeboat named RNLB Merchant Navy to mark the generous support given to the lifeboat service over many years by merchant seamen. The ceremony took place in St Katharine... - View image in PDF

OCTOBER 18TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. About 12.20 in the early morning information was received from the naval control at the pier-head that a barrageballoon- drifter and a barge had been driven ashore on the West Shoebury Sands. A S.W...

Although not part of the Little Ships flotilla African Queen, the boat made famous by Humphrey Bogart in the film of the same name, attempted to make the passage to Dunkirk. She got into difficulties and had to be towed into Ramsgate by the... - View image in PDF

THIS August, for the fifth year running, the fishwives of Cullercoats made a collection for the Institution on the occasion of the road exercise and launch of the Life-boat in Whitley Bay. Once again, as they have already done each year,...

Bridlington, Yorkshire.—About 12.45 in the afternoon of the 17th of Nov- ember, 1949, information was received that three local fishing vessels were at sea and that the weather was worsen- ing. The life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield,...

AFTER a fortnight of incessant rain, the weather changed for the better, and on 17th July, 1972, everything seemed set fair for a successful lifeboat week. The piece de resistance was to be a display by a Royal Navy helicopter from...

The 13 crew members who lost their lives
were: Sam Distin, Albert Distin, Peter Foale
Senior, Peter Foale Junior, William Foale,
James Canham, James Cove, Ashley Cook,
Frank Cudd, John Cudd,... - View image in PDF