LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Kings of Wessex School Cheddar
A tug of war across the river, or for one of these gallant but presumably doomed young competitors, over the river.
This was just one of the ways that pupils from Kings of Wessex School, Cheddar, succeeded in raising... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The R.A.F.'s Thanks.
At the end t September the Institution received another letter from the Air Council thanking it for the help which it had given in air-sea rescue work. That help, the Council sai.i had been 'of the greatest value to the Royal Air...
Category: Articles
The New Boathouse
It was completed in November, 1947. The watchhouse, at the beginning of the approach gangway, stands where the old life-boat house stood.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Castle, of Aberystwith
On the 25th December, during stormy weather, the smack Castle, of Aberystwith, was totally wrecked at the mouth of the bar.
The Evelyn Wood life-boat went off and" placed 6 men on board to assist in saving the vessel...
Broadcast of a Launch at New Brighton
ON 2nd January a broadcast of a launch of the motor life-boat at New Brighton, was given in the North Regional programme. The firing of the maroons, the orders of the cox- swain and the sounds of the life-boat leaving New Brighton stage were...
Category: Articles
Admiral Stuart Nicholson, of Bude
BY the death of Admiral Stuart Nicholson, C.B., M.V.O., D.L., on 10th September, at the age of seventy, the Institution has lost one of its most active and successful honorary secre- taries. At the end of 1920 he retired from the Navy after...
Category: Obituaries
The S.S. William
Workington, Cumberland. — On the 23rd of September, 1954, the S.S.
William, of Drammen, Norway, arrived off Workington and wirelessed that she had a sick man on board. She asked for a doctor, and at 4.15 the life-boat...
Wells' Mersey Class Lifeboat Don's M. Mann of Ampthill Stands Off Outside the Surf Line Waiting to Connect a Tow With the Yacht Aubie.
Wells' Mersey class lifeboat Don's M. Mann of Ampthill stands off outside the surf line waiting to connect a tow with the yacht Aubie.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Catherine of Newry
On the 19th February the services of the Fleetwood life-boat were again called into requisition. A vessel with a flag of distress flying, was observed to be on shore; the wind blowing a gale from N.N.W. at the time, with heavy squalls. The...
Golden Lily, of Swansea
APRIL 14TH. - GALWAY BAY. At 12.50 in the morning word was brought to the lifeboat coxswain that a vessel was in distress.
A south-east gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. At 1.15 the motor life-boat K.E.C.F. was launched...