LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Band Spirit
Band spirit Tynemouth lifeboat band, otherwise known as Lenny Park and the Pagers, have been gigging regularly to raise cash for lifeboat coffers.
To date the band has helped Supporters Ashore of the Lifeboat at Tynemouth... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Dalemoor
JUNE 13TH. - ABERDEEN. A message was received from the Gregness coastguard that a vessel was on fire seven miles from Greyness, and at 1.30 in the morning the No. 1 motor life-boat Emma Constance was launched. A little northerly wind was...
Jan Schaub of Cleveland, Ohio
Jan Schaub of Cleveland, Ohio hopped on a plane and gave the Whitby appeal a surprise cash boost.
Jan is pictured with Whitby Station Treasurer Geoff Cooling, Mechanic Glen Goodberry and Second Coxswain John... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
November (1)
NOVEMBER MEETING INCHCOLM ISLAND, FIFESHIRE. On the evening of the 15th of July, 1945, five men and women of the Services went out on pleasure in a naval dinghy intending to sail from Aberdour to Inchcolm. They started in calm weather, but...
Category: Services
Long Service to Oil Tanker
WHEN the 61,000 ton Liberian tanker Torrey Canyon went aground on the Seven Stones on the 18th March, 1967, two life-boats were called out. Both spent many hours at sea.
The first report to reach a life-boat station came...
Category: Services
Shirley May
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 10.30 on the morning of the 9th of October, 1957, a message was received from theAlderney harbour master that three men had put out in a boat to go fishing and had not returned. They had been last seen at six...
Ivy
Escort A CARGO VESSEL, Ivy, taking water and listing 15 miles south of Douglas Head, was reported to the honorary secretary of Douglas lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 0900 on Saturday, January 3, and at 0920 the 46' 9" Watson...
Talvaldis (1)
JULY 9TH. - SALCOMBE, AND TORBAY, DEVON. At 7.10 P.M. the Prawle Point Signal Station reported that a vessel was being bombed by enemy aeroplanes three or four miles away. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing, but the sea was smooth. At 7.30...
Passenger Steamers and the Life-Boat Service
THE Institution receives each year from a number of the big shipping com- panies part of the proceeds of collec- tions which have been made on board their ships on behalf of different chari- ties. The increasing numbers, as well as the...
Category: Articles
Christmas Cards and Calendars
The Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar for sale. The card will be a reproduction in colour of the painting on this page.
The original painting was by David Cobb, R.O.I., S.M.A., and shows the...
Category: Advertisement