LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
February
Launches 34. Lives rescued 55.
FEBRUARY 5 T H . - CROMARTY. At 6.25 A.M. the Burghead coastguard reported distress signals from a vessel aground one mile west of Findhorn, and the motor life-boat James Macfee was launched...
Category: Services
Henry Browne & Son Ltd
The new experimental Hatch-boat built by Wm. Osborne Ltd.. of Littlehampton lor the Royal National Lifeboat Institution who specify Sestrel compasses.
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Category: Advertisement
Francois Tixier
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 10.40 in the morning of the 8th of July, 1948, the coastguard reported that the motor vessel Francois Tixier, of Dunkirk, bound from Goole for Rouen with a cargo of coal, was flying distress signals four miles north by...
Sir George Shee
ALL associated with the life-boat service will have heard with the greatest regret of the death at Worthing, on the 29th November, 1939, at the age of 69, of Sir George Shee, late secretary of the Institution.
Sir George...
Category: Obituaries
A Glance at the War Services of the Life-Boats
As this issue of the JOURNAL probably comes before many of the head teachers of National Schools throughout the j United Kingdom for the first time, j and in view of their widespread co- j operation in the Prize Essay Competition, it seems...
Category: Services
The Norwegian Frigate Bergen
Portrush, Co. Antrim. On ist November, 1965, the Portrush life-boat Lady Scott (Civil Service No. 4) was launched to search for survivors from the Norwegian frigate Bergen. A full account of this service, for which special awards were made...
Cover Picture
by Campbell MacCallum The Mersey class lifeboat Her Majesty The Queen taking part in the Lord Mayor'sShowon 13 November 1993.
Among those aboard her are the BBC TV's 'Blue Peter' presenters and the young... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cover Picture
by Maggie Murray The recipients of the Medals for Gallantry presented at the 1995 Awards aboard Stornoway's new Severn class lifeboat, The Will, at a photocall held the previous day at St Katharine Dock.
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Category: Photographs
The Crosby Lightship
MARCH. 8TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHE: SHIRE. At 11.38 A.M. the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board reported that the Crosby Lightship was adrift. A heavy W.N.W. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea and rain squalls. The No. 1 motor life-boat...
Chataway
wu KI.OW, Thursday February 13, 1986: the 42ft Watson class lifeboat. J. W. Archer, setting out at 132S on service in a gale force 8 to 9 south-easterly, to go to the aid of a catamaran some 20 miles to the south east of the station. The...