LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Jane Ellen, of Aberystwith
At mid- night on the 20th January, during a heavy gale from E.S.E., the schooner Jane Ellen, of Aberystwith, was observed dragging her anchors, in a very dangerous position off this place. The Royal Berkshire life-boat was immediately manned...
Melissa, of Aldeburgh
RUSSIAN ENCOUNTER News was received at Walnier, Kent, on 7th August, 1971, that an unknown number of survivors from a yacht had been placed on board the East Goodwin lightvessel after having been rescued by a Russian warship flotilla...
Birds Eye
Backbone of the FishingTrade.
This was one that didn't get away. One of a thousand million.
A thousand million of the reasons why every day and night men put out to sea in all weathers to earn their...
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Face In the Cliffs
Reading the Spring 1998 issue of The Lifeboat. I noticed the photograph of Valentia's Severn class lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On June 22 the North West District of the Boys' Brigade Presented to Blackpool Crew a Cheque for £500 to Go Towards Blackpool Inshore Lifeboat House Frederick Bur
On June 22 the North West District of the Boys' Brigade presented to Blackpool crew a cheque for £500 to go towards Blackpool inshore lifeboat house.
Frederick Burton, honorary secretary of the station, is at right... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Photographs Which Capture the True Nature the Weather In Which Lifeboats Operate Are Rare
Photographs which capture the true nature of the weather in which lifeboats operate are rare - but this picture of the Portrush (Ireland Division) Arun Richard Evans (Civil Service No.39) on 13 February 1989 certainly does.
Category: Photographs
Mrs Ruth Wadlow Presents a Cheque to Michael Ashley District Organising Secretary South London at the Christmas Ball of the Court Laxton Tudor of the Independe
Mrs Ruth Wadlow presents a cheque to Michael Ashley, district organising secretary, South London, at the Christmas Ball of the Court Laxton Tudor of the Independent Order of Foresters at Gravesend. The Court donated £850 to the RNLI,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Centenaries of Life-Boat Stations
IN 1957 three life-boat stations celebrated the centenary of their foundation.
These were the stations at Great Yarmouth & Gorleston, Caister and Wicklow.
Caister can claim, among other distinctions,...
Category: Articles
Award for Licensee of Inn
Ox the evening of the 9th of August, 1957, two boys and a girl were bathing off the beach at Walberswick, some two hundred yards south of the south pier of the harbour at Southwold, Suffolk. A strong south-by-east breeze was blowing and...
Category: Awards
The S.S. Flathouse
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 26th of June, 1955, the coast- guard reported that the S.S. Flathouse, of London, which was in the Roads, had asked for a boat to land her mate, who had been taken ill....