LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Trojan III
OCTOBER 14TH. - ST. DAVID‘S, PEMBROKESHIRE,.
At 12.10 in the morning the naval base telephoned that a vessel was drifting in the direction of Skomer Island.
A west-north-west gale was blowing, with a rough...
Second Coxswain Victor Pitman of Weymouth (Centre) With the Crew Who Sailed With Him on Thursday October 14 1976: (1 to R) Emergency Mechanic Eric Pavey Crew
Second Coxswain Victor Pitman of Weymouth (centre), with the crew who sailed with him on Thursday, October 14, 1976: (1. to r.) Emergency Mechanic Eric Pavey, Crew Members Bertie Legge and Bernard Wills, Motor Mechanic Derek Sargent, and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The United States Ambassador In London Charles H PriceII (I)
The United States Ambassador in London, Charles H. Price II (I), hosted a reception on October 2 to celebrate the 160th anniversary of the RNLI. HRH Princess Alexandra, accompanied by her husband, the Honourable Angus Ogilvie, was the guest... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Russula
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 11.45 on the morning of the 13th of May, 1057, a shipping agent telephoned the life- boat coxswain to say that a seaman on board the S.S. Russula, of Genoa, which was anchored off Lightning Knoll buoy, had fallen down...
The Great British Mobility Group
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Category: Advertisement
The Sailing Club's Rescue Boat Anne Bonaventure
TWO MEN SAVED FROM CLUB'S RESCUE BOAT Hastings, Sussex. At 1.35 on the afternoon of the 20th May, 1962, the police informed the honorary secretary that the Hastings and St. Leonards sailing club's rescue boat Anne Bonaventure was in...
The Sailing Boat Parakeet
Boulmer, Northumberland. At 11.35 on the morning of the 28th of August, 1959, the honorary secretary was in- formed that a sailing boat was lying to her anchor in a position which might become dangerous off the mouth of the River Aln. At...
The Caister Disaster Pension Fund
Ix the issue of The Life-boat for last September an article was published on the pension fund which was formed to provide for the forty-two dependants of the nine life-boatmen who lost their lives when the Caister No. 2 life-boat was wrecked...
Category: Articles
Eastbourne Crew and Shorehelpers Who Have Already Raised Nearly £3000 Towards the Cost of Their New Lifeboat Present Two Cheques for the Eastbourne Appeal to A
Eastbourne crew and shorehelpers, who have already raised nearly £3,000 towards the cost of their new lifeboat, present two cheques for the Eastbourne appeal to Alderman Cecil Baker, station honorary secretary. (I. to r.)... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain W. S. Dass, of Longhope
COXSWAIN WILLIAM STEWART DASS, of Longhope, in the Orkneys, died in January of this year. He had retired in 1946, at the age of sixty-eight, after serving for three years as second cox- swain and then over twelve years as...
Category: Obituaries