LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Tug and The Drifters Pittendrum and Barbara Cowie
NOVEMBER 14TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. During the darkness of the early hours a heavy north-north-east gale, with squalls and a rough sea, broke the moorings of the fishing fleet in Balaclava Harbour. One drifter was driven on to...
Launching the Greater London
The new life-boat house at Southend-on-Sea. - View image in PDF
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Category: Photographs
Life-Boat In the Lord Mayor's Show
The Life-boat "Robert and Catherine," late of Appledore, now of the Reserve Fleet at Poplar, in the Lord Mayor's Show of the 9th November, 1928, with Coxswain W. T. Hammond and members of the Walton-on-Naze Crew on... - View image in PDF
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Two Life-boatmen Cross the Atlantic
IN March, 1949, two former members of the life-boat's crew at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Stanley Smith, aged thirty, and Colin Smith, aged twenty-nine, sons of Coxswain S. T. Smith, went to Canada. There, at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, they...
Category: Articles
Ernest, of Ipswich
The same life-boat was also afloat on the 20th March, during a heavy gale from N.N.E., and was the means of bringing ashore the crew of 4 men of the distressed barge Earnest, of Ipswich, which after- wards stranded inside the...
Isaac Clark of Runswick: When He Retired Last Year He Had Given 59 Years of Service to His Station—20 Years As a Crew Member 34 As Winchman and Five As a Shore H
Isaac Clark of Runswick: when he retired last year he had given 59 years of service to his station—20 years as a crew member, 34 as winchman and five as a shore helper—and his connection with the lifeboat extended back even longer than the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Howard of Grimsby
On the 27th March, the smack Howard, of Grimsby, went ashore near the outer buoy, off Scar- borough. On the accident being seen from the shore, the Scarborough life-boat was im- mediately launched, and took off the only man on board the...
The Two Welsh Gold Medallists
Captain Owen Jones and Second Coxswain William Roberts, of Moelfre, Anglesey.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Carol Sandra
Fishing boats wrecked TWO GERMAN STUDENTS, walking on the cliffs near Breil Nook on Flamborough Head on the morning of Monday, May7, 1984, smelt diesel oil and, looking into the water, saw what appeared to be the overturned hull of a...