LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Service to Yacht Aground Off Weymouth Pier
Mr. Donald Laker, a member of the Weymouth life-boat crew who went overboard to swim to a yacht with a line, has been awarded the bronze medal for gallantry. The thanks of the Institution on vellum have been accorded collectively to the...
Category: Services
Keeping History Preserved
Keeping history preserved I read the feature on the National lifeboat Collection at Chatham with great interest, unfortunately the collection does not include the 'jewel in the crown', the oldest existing lifeboat in the world - the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Open Day
St Catherine's lifeboat station held an Open Day on 27 June attracting over 2,000 visitors and raising £3,000 in the process.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Rosso, of Stockholm (3)
Montrose, and Broughty Ferry, Angus, Eyemouth, Berwickshire, and Gourdon,Kincardineshire.—At 4.52 in the after- noon of the 7th of March, 1952, the S.S. Rosso, of Stockholm, bound for Sweden from Methie, wirelessed that she was leaking...
An Aeroplane (200)
DECEMBER 28TH. - BLACKPOOL, AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNE’S, LANCASHIRE.
A British aeroplane had crashed at night, but no trace of her could be found. - Rewards, Blackpool, £11 15s. ; Lytham-St. Anne’s, £14 Is....
An Aeroplane (201)
DECEMBER 28TH. - BLACKPOOL, AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNE’S, LANCASHIRE.
A British aeroplane had crashed at night, but no trace of her could be found. - Rewards, Blackpool, £11 15s. ; Lytham-St. Anne’s, £14 Is....
The German Life-Boat Institution. (From the Shipping World, 1st July, 1894.)
WE learn from the Annual Report (for the year 1893-4) of the Deutsche Gesell- schaft znr Eettung Schiffbriichiger, read at the annual meeting of the committee held at Frankfort-on-the-Main on the 29th May, that in the course of the year the...
Category: Articles
The First of the 1909 Silver Medal Services at Fraserburgh: the Lifeboat Anna Maria Lee Is Manoeuvered In Close to the Fishing Boat Henry and Elizabeth of Nairn Be
The first of the 1909 silver medal services at Fraserburgh: the lifeboat Anna Maria Lee is manoeuvered in close to the fishing boat Henry and Elizabeth of Nairn before her six remaining crew are pulled to safety.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (154)
OCTOBER 6TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA (AT BRIGHTLINGSEA), ESSEX. A British bomber had crashed near Jaywick and the life-boat found her, bottom upwards, but there was no trace of the crew. It was learned later that three of the airmen had swum...