LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Girl Alice
Kilmore, Co. Wexford. At 1.58 on the afternoon of the 23rd August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Girl Alice had lost her rudder and was drifting near the Barrels lightvessel. At 2.13, when the...
Fishing Boats (1)
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 31st of August, 1956, there was a heavy sea on the harbour bar. Local fishing boats and a fishing fleet from Scotland were at sea. Because of the conditions it was decided to launch the no. 1...
Key-Side Concert
Peter Skellern (inset) at the keys of a grand piano aboard a car ferry moored off Polruan quay for an evening concert in aid of the RNLI.
(Photos courtesy Devon and Cornwall Press Agency (inset) and A. G.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
Royal National Life-Boat Institution.
Patroness—HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
President—THE BIGHT Hon. EARL PERCY, P.G.
THE COMMITTEE or MANAGEMENT have to state that, during...
Category: Advertisement
Russell Court Studios
SALCOMBE LIFEBOAT PRINT "BALTIC EXCHANGE II" A SPECIAL EDITION SIGNED PRINT TO COMMEMORATE A FAMOUS YEAR IN THE HISTORY OF SALCOMBE LIFEBOAT.
BY GORDON ASHTON IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE SALCOMBE LIFEBOAT CREW The...
Category: Advertisement
A Novel Life-Saving Dress
THE number of valuable lives lost every year by drowning is a fact not sufficiently realised, or it would certainly receive greater attention than it at present ap- pears to do.
During every summer, distressing ac- counts...
Category: Articles
Yacht Saladin
Dover, Kent.—At about 12.45 A.M. on the 2nd June, 1938, morse signals were seen from a yacht. The night was very stormy, with a whole S.E. gale and very rough sea. While the life-boat crew were assembling a man from the cutter yacht Saladin,...
The S.S. Carlotta
WALMER AND KINGSDOWNE.—On the morning of the 9th October the South Sand Head Light Vessel fired signals indicating that a vessel was in distress, and the Coastguard on duty at Walmer at.once reported the fact to the Coxswain of the Life-boat...
Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
National Institution FOr THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.- rS. 8 2 4.
SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS.
PATRONESS.
HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE...
Category: Advertisement
The Coningbeg Lightvessel
Kilmore Quay, Co. Wexford.—At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 3rd of October, 1956, the office of the Irish Lights in Dublin telephoned that there was an injured man on the Coningbeg light- vessel and asked if the life-boat would bring him...