LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Above a Lovely Day
Above. A lovely day for a swim. Excellent weather over the two days made life a little more pleasant for the crews demonstrating righting techniques. Here the air bag on an Atlantic 21 brings her swiftly upright just off the depot quay. D... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Josephine II (1)
Hythe, Dover, and Folkestone, Kent.— On the night of the 13th-14th December the Hythe and Dover motor life-boats and a Folkestone fishing boat went out to the rescue of the crew of three of the motor fishing boat Josephine II, of...
Marine Print Offer
[GNED MARITIME LIMITED EDITION by Michael James Whitehand A rare opportunity to obtain a superb quality textured fine art signed limited edition print, titled "A Proud Defeat" Limited to 850 impressions, personally signed and...
Category: Advertisement
St. Albans
St. Albans made a very special effort to make Century Life-boat Day, which was held on 19th July, an outstanding success. A Life-boat was stationed in the Market Square during the forenoon, and it toured the outer areas of the city during...
Category: Articles
The Ex-German Yacht Pirol
JUNE 25TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 3.50 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned a report from the east pier watchman that, the ex-German yacht Pirol, which had left harbour for Portsmouth, manned by five R.A.F. men, had grounded on the Brake...
Silver Medal Service
A cargo ship on passage to Egypt got into trouble off the Devon coast in heavy seas and gale force winds when her 5,260-tonne load of timber shifted, causing a severe list.
Salcombe and Torbay’s all-weather lifeboats...
Category: Articles
Audrey
On the 31st July the barge Audrey, of London, with a crew of two, had her sails carried away in the Whitaker channel, while bound from London to Rochford with a cargo of wheat. A moderate to strong S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea....
White Heather
Torbay, Devon.—At 6.15 P.M. on the 27th August the master of the motor boat White Heather reported that a motor boat was in a dangerous position under the cliff face at Berry Head, and that the two men on board were shouting for help. The...
Old Life-Boats
THE adventures of life-boats after they pass out of the service have, from time to time, been recorded in this journal.1 Some go far afield. One became a launch on a South African river. An- other, a steam life-boat, was sent some years ago...
Category: Articles
Hunstanton S Atlantic 21 Lifeboat
Hunstanton S Atlantic 21 Lifeboat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs