LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Patrol Vessels
FEBRUARY 8TH. - NEWHAVEN,SUSSEX. Patrol vessels had been reported missing, but nothing was found and, later, all were accounted for. - Rewards, £10.
New Ways of Raising Money
Mr. R. C. Tremlett, a well-known bass fisherman in the Portsmouth area, has raised considerable sums of money for the Institution by giving talks, illus- trated by films and slides, on fishing and then making collections. Another film that...
Category: Donations
New Life-Boathouse at Southend-On-Sea
IN 1928 the Institution stationed at Southend-on-Sea, Essex, a motor life- boat of the Ramsgate type. This life-boat, which had been given and endowed by the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, was named Greater London in the following year by H.R...
Category: Inaugurations
A Boat (1)
LONG SEARCH FOR UNLIT BOAT Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.
At 10.10 on the evening of Tuesday the 20th of August, 1963, what appeared to be burning material was seen a number of times about half a mile off shore and two...
The Late Coxswain John Crocombe, of Lynmouth
Second Coxswain from 1882-1886, and Coxswain from 1886-1926.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lt Cdr Donald McLauchlan MBE
Lt Cdr Donald McLauchlan MBE RN (RETD). Don joined the committee of Wimbledon branch as honorary treasurer in 1986. He was awarded the Institution's certificate of thanks in 1996..
Category: Obituaries
Heather
Two fishing cobles put to sea from Filey at 4 A.M. on the 15th November, but became separated in the darkness. One of them returned at 9.30 A.M. and re- ported that the other, the Heather, carrying a crew of three, had not been seen for some...
Fishing Boats
Whitby, Yorkshire.—About half past three on the morning of the 26th of September, 1950, several Scottish fish- ing boats working from Whitby were at sea. A strong north-easterly wind was causing a very heavy sea, making the approach to...
Seven Ships including the Orminster and the Browning
GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT NEWCASTLE JANUARY 21ST. - NEWCASTLE, AND CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. At 12.45 in the morning a message came to Cloughey from the coastguard that a steamer was ashore half a mile off Ballyquinton, and at 1.40 the life-boat...
Lifeboats from Sweden and Norway
Lifeboats from Sweden and Norway visited Poole in May on their way to the 15th International Lifeboat Conference at La Coruna, Spain (a full report of which will appear in the Autumn journal). Pictured (left) are Norway's Skomvaer III,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs