LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Christening In May of Bryan Michael White
The christening in May of Bryan Michael White, son of Motor Mechanic Bob White and his wife Susan, took place on board Number lifeboat at Spurn Point. The service was conducted by the Reverend L. D. Christie, Vicar of Easington, who used as... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Snaefell
FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.—At 8 P.M. on the 4th February the Life-boat Sob Newbon was launched, intelligence having been received from the coastguard that a vessel was aground on the Black Rock. A moderate wind was blowing from E.N.E., and there...
Old Life-Boats
THE adventures of life-boats after they pass out of the service have, from time to time, been recorded in this journal.1 Some go far afield. One became a launch on a South African river. An- other, a steam life-boat, was sent some years ago...
Category: Articles
On the Sandbanks In Morecambe Bay
AT three in the afternoon of Sunday, the 3rd of April, the coastguard at Rossall told the coxswain of the life-boat that they could see a vessel outside the harbour in a dangerous position. She was about two miles away to the north-west of...
Category: Services
Sixteen Years After
GRATITUDE is not always short-lived.
This letter comes from Warwickshire : " Once again on behalf of myself and family I have pleasure in sending you a cheque value £l 7s. 6d. as a small donation towards the fund...
Category: Correspondence
The Admiralty Tanker Wave Victor (2)
Ilfracombe, and Appledore, Devon; and Minehead, Somerset.—At 5.24 on the afternoon of the 17th of January, 1954, the Admiralty tanker Wave Victor, which had fifty-five people on board, wirelessed that fire had broken out in her engine-room...
A Life-Boat Song
'Tis a stormy night, and the wild winds roar, The waves roll mountains high, And the Life-boat crew are called to the shore, For a ship to the rocks in nigh.
Not a moment waver our heroes bold, As their boat they...
Category: Poetry
Summary of a Meeting of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 9th November, 1939.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Resolved that the Finance Committee be re-named "Finance and General Purposes Committee." Paid £27,617 Is. 7d. for the...
Category: Committee
Hunstanton S Atlantic 21 Lifeboat
Hunstanton S Atlantic 21 Lifeboat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Oxygen Given to Man Trapped In Porthole
AT 1.3 on the afternoon of 8th Decem- ber, 1962, the honorary secretary of the Southend-on-Sea life-boat station, Mr.
P. G. Garon, learnt from the coast- guard that the Dutch motor vessel Temar of 198 tons was on fire. She...
Category: Services