LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hastings - Mersey Class Sealink Endeavour
Deck chair weather for the guests at the naming of the Mersey class Sealink Endeavour by HRH The Duke of Kent at Hastings on 21 September. (Photo Tony Denton). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lovers at Last
Macduff Helmsman Colin Duthie, married his sweetheart, Lorraine McKay, in November with the station's lifeboat as a backdrop for the wedding pictures.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The History of the Institution
ON 30th October the history of the Institution, during its first hundred years of work, was published under the title " Britain's Life-boats : A Century of Heroic Service." It has been written, at the request of the Committee...
Category: Articles
Good Hope and the Buckie Boat Comet
Wick, Caithness-shire. At 7.05 a.m.
on 2nd April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Good Hope of Wick had been in collision with the Buckie boat Comet.
The Good...
Motor Fishing Boats
Early in the morning of the 8th January some of the motor fishing-boats put to sea, the ; weather at the time being moderate with but little wind. Later the wind shifted into the eastward and brought up a very heavy sea, causing the boats...
The Most Lives Saved
Feature The most lives saved A hundred years ago, a liner full of passengers needed saving off the Cornish coast – one lifeboat just wasn’t going to be enough After months at sea, the White Star liner Suevic was within hours of completing...
Category: Articles
The Middle Gas Float
At about 10 P.M. on the 13th November the coxswain saw that the Middle Gas Float had broken from its mooring and was drifting out of the Humber, be- coming a danger to navigation. The sea was smooth, with a light southerly wind, and the...
The Life-Boat Calendar, 1928. A Life-Boat Rescue Near Tynemouth Castle
THE LIFE-BOAT CALENDAR, 1928.
A Life-boat Rescue near Tynemouth Castle. (Painted and engraved by W. Elmvs, and published in 1803 by Henry Greathead, builder of the first Life-boat.).
Category: Drawings
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Category: Advertisement
Frances Mary
On the 23rd August, the brigantine Frances Mary, of Drogheda, stranded on Drogheda Bar during a, heavy E. gale, accompanied by a rough sea. The John Rutter Ohorley Life-boat proceeded to her assistance, but only 1 of the crew then came...