LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Yoko Was Formerly the New Brighton, Cheshire, Reserve Life-Boat ON812
The Yoko was formerly the New Brighton, Cheshire, reserve life-boat ON812 Edmund and Mary Robinson built in 1938. She was a 41-foot Watson and in those days cost the R.N.L.I. £6,000 to build.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Opposite Top: The Second Tug Attempts To Tow The Green Lily (middle) Away From Danger
Opposite top: The second tug attempts to tow the Green Lily (middle) away from danger.The Lerwick lifeboat is pictured to the right. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
One of the Attractions of Yeovil and District Branch's Stand at Yeovil Festival of Transport Was a Radio Controlled Model Waveney Lifeboat Built By John King Chairman of the Branch Visitors to The
One of the attractions of Yeovil and district branch's stand at Yeovil Festival of Transport was a radio controlled model Waveney lifeboat built by John King, chairman of the branch. Visitors to the show were invited to sink a saucer... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The American Steamer John R. Park, of San Francisco
MARCH 21ST. - PENLEE, AND THE LIZARD, CORNWALL. At 4.15 in the afternoon a message was received at Penlee from the coastguard at Penzance, that a vessel and possibly two, nine miles west of The Lizard, needed help. There was a light...
Mrs Ann Banner Mbe,
Mrs Ann Banner MBE, founder chairman of Billingham ladies guild.
Appointed chairman in 1980, she took over the dual role of chairman/treasurer in 1990. When the guild closed in 1996 Mrs Banner supported the Tees Endeavour...
Category: Obituaries
The Fishing Factory Ship Cornelius Vrolijk
Saved 21 GALWAY BAY LIFEBOAT, the 48ft 6in Solent R. Hope Roberts slipped her moorings at 0715 on Sunday, November 9, 1986, after the Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre at Shannon had alerted the station honorary secretary to the plight of...
Salvage of Property By the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
THE Committee of this Institution have found it necessary to reconsider the question regarding payments to their Life-boats' Crews, after they have rendered important assistance in saving property as well as lives, and accordingly the...
Category: Committee
Mrs Olwyn Cory 28 Mother of Twins and Wife of Mr Andrew Cory Mechanic of the Flamborough Lifeboat Swung High Across Thornwick Bay Flamborough Head Durin
Mrs Olwyn Cory, 28, mother of twins and wife of Mr Andrew Cory, mechanic of the Flamborough lifeboat, swung high across Thornwick Bay. Flamborough Head, during lifesaving demonstrations by the lifeboat and coastguards. Coastguards were... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rewards of the Royal Humane Society
IT has been our custom from time to time to record the noble deeds of our Life- boat crews, who, acting on the promptings of an innate heroism, have, during winter storms, performed deeds of such desperate courage and patient endurance as to...
Category: Articles
The Converted Ship's Life-Boat Strathclyde
Newhaven, Sussex - At 7.47 p.m. on 6th September, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was in difficulties about seven miles south east of the station.
At 7.55 the life-boat Kathleen Marywas...