LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pretty Little Kirsty
Pretty little Kirsty Sutherland presented actress and personality Una McLean with a basket of flowers after she opened the Muckhart and Dollar branch fete. Wind and rain did not deter the local people and £840 was raised that day, with... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Universal Code of Instructions for the Management of the Mortar and Rocket Life Apparatus
DURING the last few years the Committee of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION have had many opportunities for observing the great need that existed for the adoption of a uniform system of management of the mortar and rocket apparatus, and...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Greyfriars
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—On the evening of the 25th January a message was received from Flamborough Head signal station that a vessel in Selwick Bay was sounding SOS. A strong S.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate swell. The weather was...
Emergency Rations
The Institution has received gifts of chocolate from Messrs. Cadbury, Fry, and Rowntree, and biscuits from Messrs. Huntley and Palmers, McVitie and Price and Peek Frean as emergency rations for its life-boats. By permission of the Ministry...
Category: Articles
A Liberator Aeroplane (1)
MAY 17TH. - MONTROSE, AND ARBROATH, ANGUS. A vessel had been reported on fire. It was a Liberator aeroplane which had crashed in the sea. A naval launch arrived first and picked up two bodies. The Arbroath life-boat did not launch, but her...
The S.S Hawkwood (1)
GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT HARTLEPOOL JANUARY 26TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM, AND TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE. At 6.55 in the morning word came from the coastguard that he had seen rockets from a vessel off Seaton Carew. The life-boat was called out at once...
Lizette
MAN RESCUED FROM YACHT AGROUND Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 2.4 on the morning of the 19th May, 1963, Walton coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Sunk pilot cutter had reported that a small craft a quarter of a mile south of...
Paola
PALLING, NORFOLK.—During a fresh breeze from the N.W. on the 3rd November, a steamer was observed on the Hasborough Sands showing signals of distress. The British Workman Life-boat was launched at 9 A.M. and proceeded to the vessel, which...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain James Wilson of St. Abbs, who first joined the St. Abbs crew in 1947.
He was assistant mechanic from 1951 to 1953, when he was appointed cox- swain. Since he joined the crew...
Category: Articles
Bonnie Lad
A N.N.E.
gale sprang up suddenly early in the morning of the 9th May, while the fishing coble Bonnie Lad, of Scarborough, was at sea. The Life-boat Queensbury was, therefore, launched and proceeded to the Castle foot,...