LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Transit
The flat Tran- sit, of Liverpool, whilst bound from Llanddulas to "Widnes with a cargo of limestone, had her sails blown away in a very heavy squall on the 10th December whilst proceeding down the Horse Channel and was rendered help-...
Rescue from a Shelled Steamer. Spanish Ship Attacked Off Cromer
SHORTLY after three in the afternoon of 2nd November, 1938, the coastguard at Cromer reported flashes and gun fire at sea. The firing shook the windows, and people, who crowded to the cliffs, could see the flashes. With binoculars, a large...
Category: Services
St.Ives Lifeboat
St Ives lifeboat, the 37ft Oakley Frank Penfold Marshall, is towed on her carriage from her boathouse to the ramp leading down to the harbour.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Gallant Life-Boat Rescues
DURING the last days of 1917 the Clacton-on-Sea and Walton-on-Naze Life-boats performed two splendid ser- vices, well worthy of the traditions of the Royal National Life-Boat Institu- tion, and resulting in the rescue of no less than 115...
Category: Articles
Valder, of Hartlepool
FEBRUARY 4TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
About five in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a trawler had arrived off Cromer with a small fishing boat in tow and had signalled asking for a boat to be sent out to tow the...
Birds Eye Foods
Backbone of the FishingTrade.
This was one that didn't get away. One of a thousand million.
A thousand million of the reasons why every day and night men put out to sea in all weathers to earn their...
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Birds Eye Foods
Backbone of the FishingTrade.
This was one that didn't get away. One of a thousand million.
A thousand million of the reasons why every day and night men put out to sea in all weathers to earn their...
Category: Advertisement
On Board the Broughty Ferry Motor Life-Boat
(Coxswain James Coull and Lieut.-Commander T. G. Michelmore, R.D., R.N.R., Northern District Inspector.) The two boats travelled together from Cowes to Dundee in May, a distance of 503 miles, and the Aith life-boat then had 295 miles more to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Susanna, of Portsmouth
JULY 16TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 10.55 at night the coastguard reported flares near the South Shingles Buoy, and at 11.20 the motor life-boat Prudential was launched in a north-westerly breeze, with a moderate sea. She searched for some time,...
Sidelights on Stations . . .
A FEBRUARY gale swept the Lytham St. Anne's life-boat Sarah Townsend Porritt from her moorings and eight of her crew had to set off in pursuit in the boarding boat. After a chase for a mile and a half towards Freckleton Marshes they were...
Category: Articles