LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Team of Bowler-Hatted Waiters
A team of bowler-hatted waiters provided some oldfashioned service from the bar at Henley-on-Thames branch Old Tyme Music Hall last October. On an evening when manv of the audience also came in costume to join in the fun, £600 was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The New Trevose Head Station
The operational opening of the Trevose Head, Padstow, lifeboat station took place on 23rd October, 1967, when the new lifeboat James and Catherine Mac- Farlane was launched down the 240-foot long slipway. On the left is the new... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Elizabeth, of Louth
The same life-boat also brought the captain ashore from the schooner Elizabeth, of Louth, which had stranded on the main below Gibraltar Point. He then proceeded to Boston to get the assistance of a steamer and lighter to get his vessel...
An Aeroplane (94)
AUGUST 19TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. A German aeroplane had come down in the sea, and the men in it had managed to climb on board the near-by wreck of the steamer Harcola, but they were picked up by a naval vessel. - Rewards, £7...
Stranded In the Western Isles
The Grimsby trawler Evelyn Rose ashore on Jura. The Islay life-boat took off eight of her crew (See page 404). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Brave Deeds
Awards at Herne Bay and The Gugh, Isles of Scilly.
THE Institution has made special awards for two acts of individual gallantry in saving life at sea. one by Mr. Frank Holness, of Herne Bav, the other by Mrs. G. B. Bond,...
Category: Awards
Tony Vandervell the First Glass Fibre Arun Represented the Rnli Lifeboat Fleet at Helsinki She Will Be Stationed at Weymouth and Is Already at Home In Portland Race Phot
Tony Vandervell, the first glass fibre Arun, represented the RNLI lifeboat fleet at Helsinki. She will be stationed at Weymouth and is already at home in Portland Race.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Enterprise II, Galilee, Faith Star, Success II, Lead Us and Pilot Me II
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 9.15 on the morning of the 3rd of January, 1953, local fishermen reported that the motor fishing coble Enterprise II, of Whitby, was at sea in deteriorating weather, and at 9.30 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was...
The Motor Coble S. B. Colling
The Motor Life-boat Herbert Joy II. was taken out for the usual quarterly exer- cise at low water on the morning of 22nd March. A moderate S.S.E. gale was blowing with a rough sea. While she was out the weather became worse, and as it was...
Union Crystal (1)
Union Crystal sinks JUST BEFORE 1915 on Wednesday, November 16, 1977, the honorary secretaries of both Sennen Cove and St Ives lifeboat stations were informed by Lands End Coastguard that the 499-ton coaster Union Crystal was in trouble 12...