LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pathfinder
NO CASINOS.
NO DISCOS.
NO FANCY DRESS PARTIES.
NO MORE THAN 10 PASSENGERS.
PRESENTING THE Pl&FECT VOYAGE TO SOUPH-ATOICA r/: oin us on a leisurely 16 day voyage to...
Category: Advertisement
Patrons and Staff of the Travellers Rest Public House
Bunk holiday fund raising activities raised £757 for the New Brighton lifeboat station. Patrons and staff of the Travellers Rest public house and Reflections on Marine Promenade, New Brighton, had an added treat when the inshore... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
S.S. Empire Kingsley, of Greenock and Escort Vessel
MARCH 22ND. - SENNEN COVE, CORNWALL.
At 3.40 in the afternoon an explosion was heard and it was seen that a vessel had been torpedoed about seven miles northwest of the life-boat station. A moderate east-south-east wind...
St Simeon (1)
French trawler in distress AT 0401 on the morning of Friday February 15, 1985, Falmouth's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Elizabeth Ann, left the lee of Falmouth docks heading out to sea on service at full speed. Coxswain Viv Pentecost was at...
Fertile (2)
Aith and Lerwick, Shetlands; and Stronsay, Orkneys. At 5.28 p.m. on Tuesday, i5th June, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Lerwick life-boat station that a 46-foot motor fishing vessel bound for Lerwick from Kirkwall...
Annual Meeting
THE Hundred and Sixth Annual General Meeting of the Governors of the Institu- tion was held at the Caxton Hall, West- minster, on Monday, 7th April, at 3 p.m.
The feature of the meeting was the presence of Coxswains from...
Category: Meetings
Shoreline
IN THE PAST tWO JSSUCS of THE LIFEBOAT I have asked members of my staff to give you an insight into their work within the department and I think you will agree that this has caused a fair amount of interest. So in this issue I would like to...
Category: Articles
Show of strength
The RNLI's history is full of dramatic twists and turns – and Alan Tyson's mission to weave them into a play is an interesting yarn in itself
‘Now hear ye all of this, good men of Bamburgh,’ shouted the cloaked man...
Category: Articles
The Motor Boats William III, Moonbeam, Endeavour and Enfilade
Newhaven, Sussex.—On the 6th of May, 1955, the motor boats William III, Moonbeam, Endeavour and En- filade put out from Dover to take a salvage party to the S.S. Germania, of Piraeus, which had run ashore to the east of Beachy Head on the...
Elise
In the very early morning of the llth February the schooner Elise, of Hernosand, outward bound from Shields with a cargo of coal, collided with a steamer when off Staithes. The steamer stood by the schooner until daybreak. A...