LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fig 1: Welding In Progress on the Workshop Floor: (Above) the Engine Bearers Are Assembled
Fig 1: Welding in progress on the workshop floor: (above) the engine bearers are assembled . . .. - View image in PDF
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Pandema, of Plymouth, and Besty, of Brixham
On the night of 18th March the brigantine Pandema, of Ply- mouth, bound from Cardiff to London with railway iron, struck on the Doomedbar Sands off Padstow during a strong northerly gale and heavy sea. The life-boat at Padstow was at once...
1. the Audience
The audience is spell bound during the review of the year film. (Send in your snippets of 2006 for consideration for next year's review to Film and Image Manager Eleanor Driscoll at RNLI Headquarters). - View image in PDF
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The S.S. Perou and the S.S. Vittoria Claudia (1)
Dungeness, and Dover, Kent; and Hastings, Sussex.—At four o'clock on the morning of the 16th of November, 1953, the Lade coastguard telephoned the Dungeness life-boat station that the S.S. Perou, of Havre, had reported that she had been...
At the Harwich Naming Ceremony
At the Harwich naming ceremony (left to right) Captain H. W. T. Owen, Chief Superintendent of Trinity House and chairman of the local branch; Mr. Stirling Whorlow, O.B.E, Secretary of the R.N.L.I.; the Mayoress of Harwich; Capt G.... - View image in PDF
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Joseph Ibbitson (Centre) Aboard the Padstow Lifeboat With Three of the Coastguards Who Rescued Him and Coxswain Trevor England (Right)
Joseph Ibbitson (centre) aboard the Padstow lifeboat with three of the coastguards who rescued him, and coxswain Trevor England (right). - View image in PDF
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Remembering Rohilla
When Titanic survivor Mary Roberts climbed aboard a hospital steamship in October 1914, she hoped for a relatively straightforward passage to France. But what happened next put over 200 lives in danger – and made history...
Category: Articles
Launch! Newhaven's Housed Slipway 47' Watson Lifeboat Kathleen Mary Launched on Service 23 Times During 1976 Rescuing Eight Lives She Has Now Been Replaced B
Launch! Newhaven's housed slipway 47' Watson lifeboat Kathleen Mary launched on service 23 times during 1976, rescuing eight lives. She has now been replaced by the fast afloat 44' Waveney lifeboat Louis Marches!, gift of the... - View image in PDF
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The Fleetwood Sea Cadet Harbour Launch
OUT ALL DAY Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 11.40 a.m. on i8th June, 1965, the coastguard reported that the Royal Navy frigate H.M.S. Blackpool, which was anchored off Blackpool, had the Fleetwood sea cadet harbour launch alongside, badly damaged....
The S.S. Irish Holly
IRISH DISTRICT Valentia, Co. Kerry-At 8.45 p.m.
on 22nd January, 1967, a large vessel was reported to have anchored in a very dangerousdangerous position in Loughkay. Weather conditions were too severe for the local pilot...