LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wanderer and The Nautilus
Again, on the 10th May, the fishing boats were oTertaken by a heavy sea, which sprang up very suddenly and which was felt all along the east coast of Scotland.
The boats made with all speed for the harbour. One of them, the...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
HAUXLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND. — A new life-boat on PEAKE'S design has been recently placed at Hauxley by the National Life-boat Institution, in lieu of the one previously stationed there, which was found to be too heavy, and to draw too much...
Category: Articles
Charity Or Piracy?
A CINEMA which had helped the In- stitution by showing one of its films asked in return if the Institution could lend it a flag with skull and crossbones.
Category: Articles
Premuda
JANUARY 16TH. - MARGATE, RAMSGATE.
AND WALMER. KENT. At 9.30 P.M. a message was received at Margate from the Margate coastguard that an Italian steamer was sinking close to the North Goodwin Light-vessel. A strong N.E. wind...
Forty-One Lives Saved
The French trawler Neptunia ashore near Longhope. (Set opposite page.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Queen's Forts
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 3.40 in the afternoon of the 21st of February, 1948, the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board telephoned that a man, a diver of the Admiralty, working on the dis- mantling of the Queen's Forts, one and a...
La Fee des Ondes
Peel, Isle of Man. At 1.10 early on the morning of the 26th of March, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorarysecretary that a French trawler was ashore on Peel Island. At 1.40 the life- boat Helena Harris—Manchester and District XXXI was...
Mrs Dora Haigh
Mrs Dora Haigh, a long standing lifeboat supporter in Meltham, cuts the cake at her ninetieth birthday party. With her are Brian Stevenson, regional organiser (NE) and members of Meltham ladies' guild committee. Mrs Haigh asked people... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumber- land.—At 5.39 on the afternoon of the 18th of June, 1957, the Spittal police telephoned that a twelve-year- old girl was in difficulty while bathing off Spittal beach. Ten minutes later the life-boat William...
Walmer Lifeboat Station Shore Helper Ken Hovells of Deal
Walmer lifeboat station shore helper Ken Hovells, of Deal, is pictured with his model of Solent class lifeboat Jack Shayler and the Lees, formerly stationed at Bembridge, Isle of Wight and since reallocated to Douglas, Isle of Man. The scale... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs