LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Liberty
Dragging on to rocks AT 1704 on Sunday September 9, 1984, the honorary secretary of Ilfracombe lifeboat station was informed by Hartland Coastguard that the yacht Liberty needed immediate assistance as she was dragging her anchor close in to...
Centenary of Life-Boat Stations. Presentation of Vellums Signed By the Prince of Wales
Blyth, Northumberland.
THE Blyth Life-boat Station was established in 1826, when the Newcastle Branch Association applied to the Institution for a Life-boat, and the Station was taken over by the Institution in 1866. It has...
Category: Articles
Armistice Day: The Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Motor Life-Boat Going Out to Sea With the Wreath
Armistice Day: The Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Motor Life-Boat Going Out To Sea With The Wreath. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part V: Behind the Scenes
ABOVE AND BELOW DECKS, the first prototype of the fast slipway lifeboat (FSB) is gradually taking shape in Fairey Marine's yard at Cowes. With some of the work progress is obvious; other jobs involve perhaps weeks of 'behind the...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Albionic (1)
MARCH 19TH. - CLOVELLY, AND ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At 3.10 A.M. a message from the coastguard, Hartland Point, was received at Clovelly that a steamer was on fire six miles north of the point. A whole W.S.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy...
The S.S. Osprey
During a thick fog on the 5th June, the s.s. Osprey, of London, collided with another steamer and was very seriously damaged. The captain, to prevent his vessel sinking, decided to beach her, and about 3 P.M. she was observed through the fog...
Coventry Junior and Infant Schools
Edward Mockett, Coventry branch honorary secretary, receives a collecting box back from pupils of one of the 21 Coventry junior and infant schools which between them collected £160 for the RNLI.
photograph by courtesy... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Calendar and Christmas Card
THE Life-boat Christmas Card and the Life-boat Calendar for 1933 are now ready.
The Calendar.
The calendar has on it a reproduction in colours of a painting by Mr. William McDowell, showing the New...
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Walkers saved from submerged rockThe skilled actions, in difficult conditions, of helmsman Ronnie Davies, 43, of the Borth lifeboat, saved the lives of two walkers, trapped on a sea-battered rock beneath Borth Head.
At 1920...