LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Naming Ceremonies: Macduff and Swanage
DESPITE COLD NORTH-EAST WINDS Straight off the sea, hundreds of people gathered at the Fishmarket, Macduff, on Saturday April 3, for the naming of the station's 48' 6" Solent lifeboat Douglas Currie.
She was...
Category: Inaugurations
Fishing Boats
JOHNSHAVEN, KINCARDINESHIRE.—The wind and sea having increased while some fishing-boats belonging to Gourdon were at sea on the 31st Jan., 1895, it was dangerous for them to attempt to return to their harbour. They were therefore warned off,...
Rnlb City of Bradford III
RNLB City of Bradford III. Photograph by courtesy of Manchester Evening News. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Clacton Queen
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the 10th August the paddle steamer Clacton Queen, of Rochester, left Clacton to visit Chatham, where Navy Week was being held. She carried a company of several hundred people. She did not return as expected, and...
A Minesweeper (5)
NOVEMBER 29TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. A minesweeper had been blown up by a mine, and the life-boat put out.
The sea was rough, and an air raid was in progress. Bombs fell near the life-boat. She searched for some hours...
Dixie
Torbay, Devon.—At 9.22 on the night of the 17th of October, 1953, the Brixham coastguard rang up to say that two men and a five-year-old boy had left Paignton for a fishing trip at 4.30 in the motor launch Dixie, but had not returned. As no...
The Converted Ship's Life-Boat Joybell
Five men left St.
Helier on the 31st March, in a converted ship's life-boat named Joybell, on a pleasure fishing trip to Les Minquiers.
They did not return when expected and some anxiety was felt. Next...
A Working Men's Dance
A REMARKABLE instance of the enthu- siastic support given to the Institution by working men and women was re- counted by Mr. R. M. Burke, the Honorary Secretary of the Branch at Tuam, Co. Galway, at the Conference of Honorary Secretaries and...
Category: Donations
(Top) Visitors Swarm Aboard 17-24,
(top) Visitors swarm aboard 17-24, a new Trent class which was un-named at the time but which will become Dora Foster McDougall and be allocated to the relief fleet. Astern of her was the Severn 17-11, The Whiteheads which will be allocated... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
May (1)
EMPTY ROWING BOAT TOWED TO HARBOUR Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 5.5 on the morning of the llth June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was drifting a mile and a half north-north-east of Orlock. The life-boat...