LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Night service for ILB WATCHET COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Minehead ILB station at 2325 on Saturday, September 13, 1975, that a flashing light, thought to be an SOS signal from a vessel in distress, had been sighted off...
Sir George Shee
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 101 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 86 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to June 23rd, 1931 - 62,610 Sir George Shee.
His Majesty the...
Category: Articles
Brooke Marine Ltd
Brooke Marine Limited ESTABLISHED 1874 SHIPBUILDERS ENGINEERS AND CONSULTING NAVAL ARCHITECTS TypeSOftSelf-Righting Length overall 50'0" Beam 14' 6" Displacement 23.5 tons Fuel Capacity 400 imp. gallons Twin General Motors...
Category: Advertisement
Bronze Medal Service at Appledore
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 124 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 46 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to May 31st, 1935 64,048 Bronze Medal Service at Appledore.
ON the...
Category: Services
A Small Boat (3)
APRIL 29TH. - EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE, AND BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. At midnight on the 28th of April information was received that a small boat with one man in it, and only one oar, had been swept out of the harbour by the ebb...
Group Photo: (Left to Right) Nicholas Hayward, Barry Down, Robin Mursell and Austin Honeysett
Croup photo: (Left to right) Nicholas Hayward, Barry Down, Robin Mursell and Austin Honeysett. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On Saturday, March 17, Orpington branch set up a display in Wallnuts shopping centre and in a nine-hour stint raised £192. on duty when the photograph was taken were Mike Reynolds, chairman, and Ray Hemings, committee member.
On Saturday, March 17, Orpington branch set up a display in Wallnuts shopping centre and in a nine-hour stint raised £192. On duty when the photograph was taken were Mike Reynolds, chairman, and Ray Hemings, committee member.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Awards to Honorary Workers
DURING September and October the following awards were made to Honorary Secretaries of Branches, and to other honorary workers, in recognition of their services in the cause of the Institution : —• To THOMAS E. PURDY, Esq., Honorary...
Category: Awards
Barge disaster averted
Chiswick lifeboat crew were on exercise on 22 March when they were tasked to a barge drifting beam-on towards Hammersmith Bridge. The barge’s engine had stalled and would not restart, and she couldn’t deploy her anchor. The lifeboat took the...
Category: Articles
A New Life-Boat Depot
IN 1882 the Institution opened a store- yard at Poplar, on the Thames. Until about five years before that time its Iife-boats4iad all been fitted at the boat- builders' yards, ropes and gear for each boat being separately ordered from...
Category: Articles