LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Returning the Compliment
Staff from the RNLI's depot and headquarters gave a helping hand to the Children in Need Appeal on 1 December last year when they made a 'double circumnavigation' of Poole. The D class inflatable stayed firmly ashore, being... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Providence Waisa
The valuable life-boat, the Bradford, on this Station, in conjunction with the steam-tug Aid, put out, on the 23rd December, during a strong N.E. gale, to the rescue of the crew of the ship Providence, of Waisa, which was totally wrecked on...
Norwegian Dream and the Container Vessel Ever Decent
Collision Aftermath The collision between the cruise liner Norwegian Dream and the container vessel Ever Decent off the coast of Kent in the early hours of Tuesday 24 August 1999 comes as a sharp reminder of how important it is to be...
The Norwegian Frigate Bergen
Portrush, Co. Antrim. On ist November, 1965, the Portrush life-boat Lady Scott (Civil Service No. 4) was launched to search for survivors from the Norwegian frigate Bergen. A full account of this service, for which special awards were made...
Mr. Arthur Simmons, of New Brighton
Mr. Arthur Simmons, of New Brigh- ton, Cheshire, who died on 6th January last, was the First Engineer of the first of the Institution's Steam Life-boats, the Duke of Northumberland, and he served as an engineer for twenty-seven years.<...
Category: Obituaries
The S.S. Corfield
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.
—At 9.10 on the evening of the 20th of July, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Corfield, of London, needed a doctor to attend a sick man.
As no other boat...
The Seven Gold Medallists
The eight gold medals were presented to seven coxswains. They were Robert Cross, of The Humber, who won the gold medal twice, and also the silver medal, the thanks on vellum and the George Medal, and helped to rescue 244 lives; Henry Blogg,...
Category: Articles
On the Goodwins Again
The American steamer North Eastern Victory. The Walmer life-boat rescued forty-two lives from her on December 24th, 1946. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The 46Ft 9In Watson Lifeboat Lady Scott (Civil
The 46ft 9in Watson lifeboat Lady Scott (Civil Service No. 4) launches from the boathouse. - View image in PDF
She was on station from 1949 to 1981. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Colin Watson. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Team of 24 Students from the City and Guild's College Union of Imperial College London
A team of 24 students from the City and Guild's College Union of Imperial College, London, set out on July 10 to try to set a record for pedalling non stop 3,675 miles round the coast of Britain; they arrived back in London within a few... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs