LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Suzette
JULY 11TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 5 in the morning the coastguard reported that a steam trawler was ashore and then that she was making distress signals, and the motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was...
The Ferry Boat Tim
MAY 3RD. - CROMARTY. At 3 P.M. a message was received from the Seaforth Highlanders Depot at Fort George that theferry boat Tim, running from Fort George to Chanory, with the depot band of twelve men on board, had broken down when half-way...
The Newly Constructed Wishing Pool In Ramsgate Model Village Raised £263 During June July and August Harry Lawford a Dla at Ramsgate Who Built the Pool Gave All the Monies Collected In
The newly constructed wishing pool in Ramsgate Model Village raised £263 during June, July and August.
Harry Lawford, a DLA at Ramsgate, who built the pool, gave all the monies collected in it to Ramsgate lifeboat. He... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
D. L. Harper
The motor tanker, D. L. Harper, of Danzig, 12.350 tons, bound laden from Aruba, West Indies, to Hamburg, with five passen- gers and thirty-eight crew, struck the Crane Rocks, about half a mile north of Lizard Head, on the 20th June.
Gemma Craven
Gemma Craven - Ma Larkin in the production of The Darling Buds of May1 at Poole Arts Centre - draws the winning tickets for the 71 st RNLI lottery. With her are Anthony Oliver, the RNLI's deputy head of fundraising and marketing, and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Book Corner
0 Shipwreck by Vcra Cumberlege (Andre Deutsch, 95p) is a very well illustrated children's book. Young Jim knew he would never forget the day his father and the rest of the life-boat crew rowed out to a wreck for the last time before the...
Category: Articles
M.F.V. Cawsand Bay
Brede on service THE FIRST SERVICE performed by the 33ft Brede class lifeboat Ann Ritchie while she was on operational evaluation trials at Oban was to go to the aid of the 55ft MFV Cawsand Bay. The fishing vessel, on passage to fishing...
Rosita
On rocks BELFAST COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Donaghadee lifeboat station at 2355 on Thursday May 21, 1981, that a motor cruiser with three people on board was aground near the entrance to Copelands Marina, south of the...
The Princess Royal at Runswick. Inaugural Ceremony of "Robert Patton—The Always Ready."
Inaugural Ceremony of " Robert Patton—The Always Ready." H.R.H. The Princess Royal named the new motor life-boat at Runswick Bay, Yorkshire, on 20th September, in the presence of over 5,000 people from all parts of Yorkshire.<...
Category: Inaugurations
Dragonfly and Xanadu
Rough conditions for Brighton's Atlantic Ashort but difficult service by Brighton's Atlantic 75 last December has earned two of her crew the Institution's Thanks on Vellum. Prompt action, good seamanship, a brave swim in rough...