LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rescue In Force 10 Gale
AT 8.28 on the evening of 16th October, 1967, the coastguard told the acting honorary secretary of the Clacton-on-Sea life-boat station, Mr. C. A. Perry, that a red flare had been sighted at the entrance to the River Blackwater. The maroons...
Category: Services
Saltaire
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT THE HUMBER OCT. 10TH.- THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At 4.20 in the morning the watchman saw a vessel heading for the beach. He gave the alarm and the motor life-boat City of Bradford II was launched at 4.55. A gale had been...
(Right) When Hm Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Visited Hastings Last June All the Lifeboat Crew and Launchers Were Introduced to Her Coxswain Joe Martin (Behi
(Right) When HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother visited Hastings last June all the lifeboat crew and launchers were introduced to her. Coxswain Joe Martin (behind Her Majesty) presents ILB crew members II. to r.) Peter Thorpe, Christopher... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Crew for Looe
Childhood friends John Crabb and Verity Pope, both aged 17, have recently joined the crew at Looe inshore lifeboat station, in Cornwall.
They are both continuing family traditions: John's elder brother Ben is a crew... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gudveig and the Latvian Steamer Everene (1)
JANUARY 25TH. - HOLY ISLAND, AND NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
The Norwegian steamer Gudveig, of Oslo, and the Latvian steamer Everene, of Riga, had been sunk by mine or torpedo, but other steamers had picked up a...
An Irish Lights Steamer (1)
DECEMBER 19TH. - ROSSLARE HARF BOUR, AND KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.
An Irish Lights steamer bad been bombed and sunk by German aeroplanes, when carryto ing reliefs for light-ships from Rosslare to the Coningbeg Light-vessel, but...
A Steamer
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—-1st July. A steamer stranded on East Holm Sands, but refloated without help.—Rewards, £16 Is..
Contents
Contents Volume XLIII Number 447 Price 15p Chairman: COMMANDER F. R. H. SWANN, CBE, RNVR Director and Secretary: CAPTAIN NIGEL D1XON, RN THE YEAR OF THE LIFEBOAT 1824-1974 Lives Saved: 98,500 Notes of the Quarter by the Editor .. .. .. .. .....
Category: Contents
Two Dinghies
Rowing dinghy WHILE SAILING his lift 6in Laser dinghy off Thorpe Bay Yacht Club at 1555 on Friday February 27. 1981, 16-year-old Carl Palmby saw someone on the beach waving to alert him to a casualty. He immediately headed for the position...
Mr Arthur Pearcy, of Llanbedr, North Wales, visited America
Mr Arthur Pearcy, of Llanbedr, North Wales, visited A merica and left RNLI tea towels at United States Coast Guard bases. Here one of the tea towels is being displayed at the San Francisco base. They were purchased by Mr Pearcy from the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs