LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Meet The Lifesaving Team – See Centre Spread
Meet the lifesaving team – see centre spread. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ann Wilmot
On November 14, at about 2.30 A.M., two flares were seen on the Scroby Sand, and rockets were fired from the St.
Nicholas Light. The Leicester Life-boat immediately put off, and on reaching the sand a vessel was discovered...
Charon of Styx
Flamborough and Scarborough, Yorkshire - At 5.5 p.m. on i6th February, 1967, a small yacht was reported to be in difficulties off Flamborough Head. The life-boat Friendly Forester was launched at 5.40 into a moderate south south easterly...
Andromeda
The schooner Andromeda, of Riga, bound from London to Bo'ness, with a cargo of scrap iron, stranded in the vicinity of Thorntonloch, on the 6th January. The Life-boat, Sarah Kay and the rocket apparatus were quickly on the scene of the...
Dolphin, of Belfast
JULY 15TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. At ten at night the Bangor coastguard telephoned that five men on board a yacht in Ballyholme Bay were unable to get ashore. A strong northerly wind was blowing, with a heavy sea and rain. The motor...
The British Railways Ferry Princess Victoria (1)
On the 31st of January, 1953, the British Railways ferry Princess Victoria sank in a gale in the Irish Sea.
The Portpatrick, Donaghadee, Clou- ghey and Newcastle, Co. Down, life- boats were all launched on service.
Mrs Richard Sounders (I) Chairman of the Central London Committee and Mrs Robin Aisher Chairman
Mrs Richard Sounders (I.), chairman of the Central London Committee, and Mrs Robin Aisher, chairman of the ball committee, are two of the ladies responsible for the organisation of the Central London annual Lifeboat and Mermaid Ball. One of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sailing Fishing Boat Mary
DEC. 1ST. - SUNDERLAND, DURHAM.
At 11.10 A.M. a fishing boat was seen drifting about three miles E.S.E. of Sunderland. A strong W.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Elizabeth Newton - on...
Joe Martin Bem,
APRIL 1994 Joe Martin BEM, coxswain/mechanic of Hastings lifeboat from 1971 to 1987. He first joined the crew in 1950, was mechanic from 1959 to 1969 and a travelling mechanic from 1969 until his appointment as coxswain..
Category: Obituaries
Rally, of Selsey
Selsey, Sussex.—On the morning of the 23rd July the coastguard reported that a fishing boat was in distress about half a mile N.W. of Selsey Bill. A strong S. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor life-boat Canadian Pacific was...