LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
In the Great Gale of November 23rd, 1938 (2)
The life-boat standing by while one keel-boat tows in another (Sec page 33.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Belgian Life-Boat Society
No invitation had been sent to the Belgian Life-boat Service to attend the International Conference, because recent personal inquiries in Belgium had unfortunately failed to discover the existence of such an organisation, and because no...
Category: Articles
Competitors In the Strenuous Wards Hill Challenge Aboard Kirkwall's Arun Class Lifeboat
Competitors in the strenuous Wards Hill Challenge aboard Kirkwall's Arun class lifeboat Mickie Salveson. There are four hills to climb - but the snag is they are on four different islands and there is 73 miles of cycling and 8 miles of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Meurig Davies Makes the Final Checks Before Llandudno's Andy Pearce Is Launched With the Duchess of Kent on Board
Coxswain Meurig Davies makes the final checks before Llandudno's Andy Pearce is launched with The Duchess of Kent on board. (Photo Jeff Morris). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Motor Life-Boat Inaugural Launches: Arklow and Wick
Two Life-boat launches have taken place this year, those of the Motor Life- boats at Atklow in County Wicklow, and Wick in Caithness-shire.
The Arklow Boat, which is a Self- Righter, 40 feet by 10 feet 6 inches, ! fitted...
Category: Inaugurations
Sunningdale, of Grimsby
At 11.10 p.m. on 30th April, 1967, the owner of the trawler Sunningdale of Grimsby informed the coxswain that the vessel had run short of fuel and required assistance. The vessel was at anchor eight miles south south east of Spurn...
Gala Performance at the Plaza
Left to right: The Duke of York, Admiral Sir Lionel HaJsey, the Duchess of York, Madame Citroen, the Duchess of Portland, M. Citroen, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, Mr. George F. Shee, Sir Godfrey Baring, the Hon. George Colville.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sailing Barge Spurgeon
Margate, Kent.—At 6.7 on the even- ing of the 8th of August, 1952, thecoastguard telephoned that a sailing barge was ashore on the North-East Shingle Sands, and at 6.10 the life-boat North Foreland, Civil Service No. XI, was launched. The...
The No. 2 Pilot Boat (1)
Holyhead, and Moelfre, Anglesey. At 8.20 on the evening of the 23rd of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the assistant honorary secretary at Holyhead that the no. 2 pilot boat, which had gone to the Skerries Rock with fifteen children...
The Steam Life-Boat "Duke of Northumberland"
THE STEAM'LIFE-BOAT "DUKE OF NOBTHUMBKKLAND.".
Category: Drawings