LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pushing the Boat Out: Members of the Running Team Based at the Green Man Stamford
Pushing the boat out: Members of the running team based at the Green Man, Stamford pushed a 14ft dinghy, dressed as a lifeboat, around the Stamford Festival half marathon and raised £1,000 for the Stamford and District branch. Later in... - View image in PDF
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The kindness of strangers
Kevin Payne dreamed of starting a new life by the Mediterranean. On 2 July 2007, he left Southampton in his 25m converted trawler Abundance, with friend George, Daisy the dog, Fluffy the cat, and everything he owned onboard. Mairéad...
Category: Articles
Nicolaou Virginia
MARCH 27TH - 29TH. - TENBY, AND ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE. In the early morning of the 27th the Greek steamer Nicolaou Virginia, bound from Bahia Blanca to Glasgow with a cargo of grain, ran ashore on the rocks at Flimston Head and was badly...
Relief Fleet -D Class British Diver Hi C Class British Diver Iv
Two new inshore lifeboats funded by the British Sub Aqua club were named and dedicated at a special ceremony on 24 October. This is believed to be the first 'double ceremony' for inshore lifeboats.. - View image in PDF
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First Knight
The Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum has been awarded to Paul Gilson, helmsman of the Southend lifeboat, following the rescue of two people from the yacht First Knight in appalling weather conditions.
At 1351...
Wing
Rescue a dramatic struggle becomesCold, tired and wet, the lone skipper of the yacht Wing had been without sleep for nearly two days when his yacht ran aground on the Long Sands, south of Skegness, on the morning of 5 May 2002. As rough seas...
Wicklow
wu KI.OW, Thursday February 13, 1986: the 42ft Watson class lifeboat. J. W. Archer, setting out at 132S on service in a gale force 8 to 9 south-easterly, to go to the aid of a catamaran some 20 miles to the south east of the station. The... - View image in PDF
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The Bridlington Life-Boat Returning to Her Station Watched By a Holiday Crowd
The Bridlington life-boat returning to her station watched by a holiday crowd.. - View image in PDF
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Frej (1)
Whitehills, and Buckie, Banffshire.— While bound from Narvik to Working- ton, with a cargo of iron ore, and a crew of 28, the Swedish steamer Frej, of Stockholm, met heavy weather and sheltered in Banff Bay. At 3.20 on the morning...
Raymond Baxter
Raymond Baxter, chairman of the RNLI's public relations committee is pictured with Roger Royle. presenter of BBC Television's "Songs oj Praise' programme and Barr Hartley. Editor of the Lowcstolt Journal, recipients of RNLI... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs