LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Ex-Admiralty Motor Fishing Vessel Universal Dipper
Cromer, Norfolk - At 11.30 a.m. on ist February, 1966, the master of the ex- Admiralty motor fishing vessel Universal Dipper, which had grounded 200 yards east of Runton Gap, asked the coxswain if the life-boat would stand-by while attempts...
Herne Bay Branch's 1983
The Viking conquerors who, invading the Kentish coast last July with their twin-hulled Nor-dick, defeated 42 other rafts in Herne Bay branch's 1983 raft race by being voted best raft and crew and by collecting the most in sponsorship,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Whitby No. 2 Pulling and Sailing Life-Boat on the Flooded Road Below Ruswarp Vicarage on Her Way to the Rescue of Two Women About Half a Mile Upstream
The Whitby No 2 Pulling And'sailing Life-Boat on the Flooded Road Below Ruswarp Vicarage On Her Way To The Rescue of Two Women About Half A Mile Upstream. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
All Three 70Ft Clyde Class (Right) Were Withdrawn from Service During the Summer of 1988 T
all three 70ft Clyde class (right) were withdrawn from service during the summer of 1988. The Clydes will be sold out of service and two of the four McLachlans will be retained for use as boarding boats at Number (Clyde photo courtesy... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Flamborough Cobles - Quest, Doreen May, Imperialist, and Boy's Own
DECEMBER 1ST. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. During the morning the wind increased, and the life-boat coxswain who was out fishing returned. By eleven o’clock a northerly gale was blowing, with a heavy sea and rain squalls, and as some of the...
Our Coast Heroes
THE following account of the rescue of the crew and passengers of a shipwreck like that of the steam-ship Stanley, off Tynemouth, on the fearful night of the 24th November last, is taken from an admirable and most interesting little volume,...
Category: Services
First Lifeboat Wedding at Littlehampton Station: June Combes Daughter of Crew Member Mick Combes and Jim Osborn the Youngest Member of the Crew Were Mar
First lifeboat wedding at Littlehampton station: June Combes, daughter of Crew Member Mick Combes, and Jim Osborn, the youngest member of the crew, were married at Clymping Church in October, with the lifeboat crew forming an arch of oars as... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
37' 6" Rather Class Lifeboat a Development of the 37' Oakley Redesigned So That Self-Righting Potential Is Derived Entirely from Hull Form Volume of Superstructure Is Sub
37' 6" Rather class lifeboat, a development of the 37' Oakley redesigned so that self-righting potential is derived entirely from hull form. Volume of superstructure is substantially increased to give buoyancy necessary to right... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Annual Meeting, 1932
The Right Hon. Walter Runciman, M.P., shaking hands with Coxswain John Swanson, of Longhope. Behind are Coxswain John Campbell, of Portpatrick, and Mr, William Sutherland, of Lon«hope.. - View image in PDF
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The London Tanker Thattepus
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 3.30 in the afternoon of the 12th of June, 1949, the police telephoned a wireless message received that a man had been seriously injured on the London tanker Thattepus, lying three miles south-west of Light- ning...