LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hod o' the Wind
SLOOP AGROUND Skegness, Lincolnshire, and Wells, Norfolk. At 10.40 p.m. on igth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the Skegness honorary secretary that the sloop Hod o' the Wind was overdue on passage from Boston Ham to Gibralter Point...
King Edward VIII and the Life-Boat Service
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 131 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 37 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to September 30th, 1936 - - - - 64,752 King Edward VIII and the Life-boat...
Category: Articles
Pram Instead of Car.
On life-boat day in Manchester and Salford one of the members of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, a city councillor of Manchester, delivered her collecting boxes, and took her money to the bank, in a baby's pram..
Category: Articles
The S.S. Slateland
At 6.30 A.M.
on 17th April the Coxswain received a message from the Guard at Goleen that a steamer was ashore to the S.W.
of Cape Clear. The Motor Life-boat Shamrock was launched at 7.30 A.M. in a moderate...
Llfracombe Celebrated Its 150Th Anniversary With An Hour-Long Ceremony at the Lifeboat Station on the Pier on Saturday September 23 1978 When (Left) a Commemora (1)
llfracombe celebrated its 150th anniversary with an hour-long ceremony at the lifeboat station on the pier on Saturday September 23, 1978, when (left) a commemorative vellum was presented by Mrs Georgina Keen, a member of the Committee of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Opportunity
FILEY, Tuesday January 7, 1986: the weather was worsening with a south-easterly near gale, force 7, and a rough sea when the fishing coble, Opportunity, was seen to break down on the weather side of Filey Brigg.
Another...
End of a Voyage to New Zealand
AT 4.58 on the afternoon of the 27th of July, 1954, the Hartland coastguard rang up the Clovelly life-boat station with the news that the motor ketch Progress, of Bideford, was in distress under the lee of Lundy Island. The trawler Hosanna...
Category: Services
Ronald Zeghibe on the Bridge of Hms York With Lain Leitch
Ronald Zeghibe on the bridge of HMS York with lain Leitch. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Kyle Firth
MAY 13TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At 4.30 A.M. it was reported from Rhoscolyn that a ship was ashore at Penrhos Point, near the South Stack. The weather was calm.
The motor life-boat A.E.D. was launched at 5...
Coxswain James Cable, of Aldeburgh, Suffolk
James Cable, ex-Coxswain of the Aldeburgh (Suffolk) Station and a member of the Branch Committee, died on 5th May of this year, at the age of 78. Few, if any, Coxswains have had more brilliant careers, and his name was known far beyond the...
Category: Obituaries