LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Antigone
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7.47 on the even- ing of the 31st of January, 1954, the coastguard reported that a message had been received by the North Fore- land radio station that the S.S.
Antigone, of Antwerp, needed help ten miles...
The Converted Schooner Hispaniola
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 3.15 in the afternoon of the 7th of August, 1949, a telephone message was received that a converted schooner, the Hispaniola, which was being used by a film com- pany, was dragging her anchor close inshore in the...
The Converted Ship's Boat Dorothy
Swanage, Dorset.—At 5.50 on the afternoon of the 23rd of May, 1954, the St. Aldhelm's Head coastguard rang up to say that a motor boat appeared to be in difficulties about two miles east of the Head. At six o'clock the life- boat R....
Whitstable: on Saturday July 9 a New Atlantic 21 Rigid Inflatable Lifeboat Was Handed Over By Mr and Mrs Todd of the British Sub Aqua
Whitstable: On Saturday July 9 a new Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat was handed over by Mr and Mrs Todd of the British Sub Aqua Club to Raymond Baxter, a member of the Committee of Management, who, in turn, handed her over to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Testing Out the Mtv Basic Voice Trainer: (I to R) Coxswain Derek Scott Motor Mechanic Alan Jones and Crew Member George Parsons from the Mumbles Photograph By
Testing out the MTV basic voice trainer: (I. to r.) Coxswain Derek Scott, Motor Mechanic Alan Jones and Crew Member George Parsons from The Mumbles. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of South Wales Evening Post.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mr. J. J. Lines, of Newhaven
Mr. J. J. Lines, of Newhaven, who died on 5th February, 1938, had retired from the honorary secretaryship of the Newhaven station in 1936. He had then been its honorary secretary for thirty-five years. Mr. Lines was awarded the...
Category: Obituaries
The S.S. Hopeful
On the 23rd February, a message having been received from the North Goodwin Light-vessel, the Life-boat Bradford went out in tow of the harbour steam-tug Aid at 8.45 A.M., and found the s.s. Hopeful, bound from London for Liverpool with a...
Anco Spur
Moelfre, Anglesey. At 5.35 p.m. on 3rd October, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that a shipping agency had asked for a doctor to be taken out to the Swedish tanker Anco Spur to attend to an injured man. It was one hour after low water...
Sir Henry Sutcliffe Smith, of Bradford
Sir Henry Sutcliffe Smith, who died on 30th March, 1938, at the age of seventy-four, had been associated with the Institution's Bradford branch for seventeen years. He was its honorary treasurer and secretary from 1921 until 1932, and...
Category: Obituaries