LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shades of 'The Boyhood of Raleigh'1 Bob Walton, Membership Secretary, Tells Linda Catlin, Shoreline's 20,000/7; Member, of the Sea and Ships and Lifeboats
Shades of 'The Boyhood of Raleigh'1 Bob Walton, membership secretary, tells Linda Catlin, Shoreline's 20,000/7; member, of the sea and ships and lifeboats. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mallaig Coxswain Tommy Ralston Right Hands Over the Replica of the St.John's Cross of Lona to David Mckie of Tobermory Lifeboat
Mallaig coxswain Tommy Ralston, right, hands over the replica of the St John's Cross of lona to David McKie of Tobermory lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Conceicao Maria
Walmer, Kent. — At 7.24 in the morning of the 6th of April, 1949, the coastguard reported that the South Goodwin Lightship had fired guns to warn a vessel approaching the sands.
A little later news came that she was aground...
New Ways of Raising Money
Mr. R. C. Tremlett, a well-known bass fisherman in the Portsmouth area, has raised considerable sums of money for the Institution by giving talks, illus- trated by films and slides, on fishing and then making collections. Another film that...
Category: Donations
The Converted Ship's Life-Boat Joybell
Five men left St.
Helier on the 31st March, in a converted ship's life-boat named Joybell, on a pleasure fishing trip to Les Minquiers.
They did not return when expected and some anxiety was felt. Next...
The S.S. Libra
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At eleven o'clock on thenight of the 8th of July, 1953, the coastguard reported that the S.S.
Libra, of Stockholm, had asked for a boat to land a sick man. No other suitable boat...
The Varne Lightvessel
Dover, Kent - On 2nd December, 1966, the Dover life-boat Southern Africarescued seven men from the Varne lightvessel.
A full account of this service, for which a special award was made to the coxswain and crew, appears on...
A Royal Inspection: on Board With Her Majesty (I to R) Lieut-Commander Harry Teare Divisional Inspector of Lifeboats (Ne) Hrh the Duke of Edinburgh (Hidden) Ca
A royal inspection: on board with Her Majesty (I. to r.), Lieut.-Commander Harry Teare, divisional inspector of lifeboats (NE), HRH The Duke of Edinburgh (hidden), Captain Alexander Kirk, Hartlepool honorary secretary, Commander Bruce Cairns... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Rosyth
On the 1st No- i vember, during a moderate easterly gale I and heavy sea, the s.s. Rosyth, of Kirk- '.
caldy, stranded on the " Black Steel " i and remained fast. In response to her ; signals of distress the...
The Bar Light-vessel
LANDING AN INJURED MAN IN A ROUGH SEA New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 8.45 in the morning of the 15th of November, 1947, the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board asked for the life-boat to land the mate of the Bar Light-vessel, who had been severely...