LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Barges Five Sisters and Scotsman
NOV. 26TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX.
At 11.33 A.M. a barge was flying distress signals near the Jenkin Buoy. A westerly gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. At 11.55 A.M. the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil...
Welcome to Blyth: Rnlb Shoreline (R) Arrives In Company With Blyth's Previous Lifeboat the 46Ft 9In Watson Winston Churchill (Civil Service No 8) (C) and the 52Ft Harriett Princess Alexandra Of
Welcome to Blyth: RNLB Shoreline (r.) arrives in company with Blyth's previous lifeboat, the 46ft 9in Watson Winston Churchill (Civil Service No. 8) (c.) and the 52ft Harriett Princess Alexandra of Kent (I.) temporarily stationed at... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Whitehills Life-Boat
The new Whitehills Life- boat, which was on passage from the building yard at Cowes to her Station, with the Northern District Inspector of Life-boats aboard, left Aberdeen at 8 A.M. on the 14th August. At 10.30 A.M. a message was received...
Boy Pat and Nellie
Islay, Inner Hebrides, and Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 5.30 in the morning of the 13th of August, 1948, the Kil- choman coastguard telephoned that a vessel about three miles north-north- west of Coul Point had made flares, and at 6.15 the...
Margaret, of Skibbereen
SEPTEMBER 1ST. - COURTMACSHERRY, CO. CORK. At 10.20 at night a fisherman returned from trawling and reported that a lobster boat appeared to be in distress near How Strand, to the east of Courtmacsherry Bay. A whole north-west gale was...
Coxswain Albert Bird (R) Aberdeen Entertains Skipper John Thomas Former Assistant Mechanic at Dungeness and the Man Who Saved His Life When Dungeness Lifeboat R
Coxswain Albert Bird (r.), Aberdeen, entertains Skipper John Thomas, former assistant mechanic at Dungeness and the man who saved his life when Dungeness lifeboat rescued six men from Teeswood in the great Channel gale of 1956; a service for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Vic & Billie Whiffen Is Launched
The Vic & Billie Whiffen is launched by davit at Southend-on-Sea. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Newlands and the S.S. Sylvafield
AUGUST 18TH. - TOBERMORY, ARGYLLSHIRE. The trawler Newlands arrived with sixteen survivors of the S.S. Sylvafield, of Newcastle, an oil tanker, which had been torpedoed and sunk off Barra Head on the night of the 15th August. The vessel had...
WELCOMING THE RNLI’S NEW VICE-CHAIR
Stuart Popham has been appointed as the RNLI’s new Vice-Chair. ‘I’m honoured to be given such a fantastic opportunity – to be Vice-Chair for such an amazing charity and important lifesaving service,’ says Stuart, who has been on the RNLI...
Category: Articles
Wild Rose, of Brixham
On the morning of the 3rd December, the life-boat at this place put off, and rendered assistance to the brig Wild £ose, of Brixham, which was observed to be in a dismantled state off Cromer during stormy weather. When the life-boat...