LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Empire Ford
JANUARY 11TH - NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 4.42 in the morning the coastguard reported that signals of distress could be seen three miles east of the harbour and at 5.15 the motor lifeboat W.R.A. was launched. A moderate S.E. gale...
Enchantress, of Hamble
Off Selsey Bill A YACHT AGROUND in the Looe Channel and needing help was reported by Solent Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Selsey lifeboat station at 1910 on Friday September 9, 1983. Maroons were fired and at 1920 the 48ft 6in...
175 Years
A TIME TO PAUSE AND LOOK BACK AROUND THE BEGINNING of the nineteenth century 31 'Original' lifeboats built by Henry Greathead of South Shields were established in ports and harbours scattered all round the British Isles. Not a great...
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The naming ceremony of the life-boat Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 35) at St. Katharine Docks, London, on 4th May, 1966, and (right) Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, being presented with a bouquet by 4 year old Alison Catherine Gibb who . . .
The naming ceremony o? the life-boat Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 35) at St. Katharine Docks, London, on 4th May, 1966, and (right) Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, being presented with a bouquet by 4 year old Alison Catherine Gibb... - View image in PDF
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Lytham-St.Anne's Lifeboat City of Bradford III Shortly Before She Set Out at 1535 on June 6 1981
Lytham-St Anne's lifeboat City of Bradford III shortly before she set out at 1535 on June 6, 1981, to go to the help of the yacht Morag in difficulties off South Shore. Blackpool.
photograph by courtesy of David Forshaw... - View image in PDF
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A Rowing Boat and A Sailing Dinghy
APRIL 29TH. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN.
At 5.45 in the evening a message was received from the Bailey Lighthouse that a boat had capsized between Poolbeg Light and Dun Laoghaire harbour. A strong and squally north-north-west wind...
The Town of Ipswich Lifeboat
THE town of Ipswich has come forward in a novel and spirited manner in support of the life-boat cause. Although not actually on the coast, it has occurred to benevolent gentlemen resident at Ipswich, that inland towns might especially be...
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Put Him Down!
Put him down! Warwick ladies' guild committee member, Joan Gill (right) and Central England regional manager, Judith Feeney, have to make do with a dummy lifeboatman as Central Region has no lifeboat stations of its... - View image in PDF
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