LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Training Ketch Warspite and Sea Hog
Cullercoats, Northumberland. At 2.55 on the afternoon of the 4th of October, 1959, the police at Whitley Bay told the honorary secretary that a ketch was in difficulties off Table Rocks in Whitley Bay. Eight minutes later the life-boat Isaac...
The Prince and the Fishwife. The Whole Secret of Getting People to Give
AT the Annual Meeting the Prince of Wales was able to announce that, as a result of his appeal to the big passenger liner companies three years ago, no fewer than five new Motor Life-boats were now on the coast, the gifts of six of these...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Sylvafield
DOCTOR TO A SCALDED MAN Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 2.30 in the afternoon of February 12th, 1947, a firm of shipping agents in Belfast tele- phoned requesting the help of the life- boat to take a doctor out to a vessel at anchor in Carrick...
Tennant, of Stockton
On the 5th January, the brig Tennant, of Stockton, ran on shore, in a severe snow-storm, on the Newcome Sand.
She was quickly seen from the shore, and the Lowestoft life-boat was immediately manned and launched, under the...
British Valour and Cruiser
Girvan, Ayrshire.—At 7.30 on the morning of the 24th of May, 1954, the Portpatrick coastguard telephoned that the tug Cruiser had reported that she had the tanker British Valour, of London, in tow four miles south- south-west of Ailsa Craig,...
Easing In Between the Bow and Stern Waves of Yarmouth's 52Ft Artin to Run Alongside at About 14 Knots: a Demanding Exercise Which Is Invaluable In Training the Helmsman to Steer With One Hand
Easing in between the bow and stern waves of Yarmouth's 52ft Artin to run alongside at about 14 knots: a demanding exercise which is invaluable in training the helmsman to steer with one hand only, leaving the other for the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Norman Forster
Three men and disabled pilot boat saved in Severe Gale and 20ft seas The rescue of three men aboard the pilot vessel Norman Forster in severe gale force winds and very heavy seas has earned Coxswain John Johnston of the Eyemouth lifeboat the...
An Air-Sea Rescue Launch
NOVEMBER 20TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. An air-sea rescue launch’s engine had broken down, but she was able to repair it and go on her way. - Rewards, £7 5s..
Warnford Tea
Drinking Tea Saves Lives! BOAT TEs BOAT! TEA TEA BAGS No, this is not a new medical discovery.
But it is true, because every time an 80-tea bag packet of Lifeboat Tea is sold, four pence is contributed to the Royal National...
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The Arimithea
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 3 P.M. on the 28th February the coastguard reported that a steam drifter, in tow of another drifter and a tug, had parted her towing hawser and was drifting rapidly on to North...