LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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FOUR YACHTSMEN LANDED FROM DUTCH VESSEL Weymouth, Dorset. At 7.35 on the evening of Wednesday the 7th of August, 1963, the Wyke coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Dutch motor vessel Zundrecht had four survivors from the motor...
Mr R. M. Addison Obe,
June 1998 Mr R. M. Addison QBE, RNLI Life Vice President. Mr Addison joined the Committee of Management m 1983 and was appointed a vice president in 1996 and life vice president in 1997. In addition, he also served on the Fundraising...
Category: Obituaries
Friendly Star
The steam drifter Friendly Star, of Lowestoft, stranded on the North Bank on 14th November, while bound for Yarmouth from the fishing grounds in a dense fog with a light W.S.W. wind. Information that the vessel was burning flares for help...
Boat Shows Are a Very Productive Source
Boat Shows are a very productive source of new members - a dedicated desk and roving sellers bring in members by the hundred - after which they usually end up on the Insignia sales counter! This is the scene at the 1995 London International... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Torbay: Edward Bridges (Civil Service and Post Office No 37) Lies In the Outer Harbour Brixham for Her Naming Ceremony She Is the Third Arun Class Lifeboat
Torbay: Edward Bridges (Civil Service and Post Office No. 37) lies in the outer harbour, Brixham, for her naming ceremony. She is the third Arun class lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Above) Mountbatten of Burma Prototype of the Rnli Medina Class Lifeboat Visited the Liner SS Canberra In Southampton Docks Last July Taking Out Commodore F B Woolley Deputy Captain I
(Above) Mountbatten of Burma, prototype of the RNLI Medina class lifeboat, visited the liner ss Canberra in Southampton Docks last July, taking out Commodore F. B.
Woolley, Deputy Captain Ian Gibb and other P and O... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Oregon, of Stonehaven
On the 7th April, the schooner Oregon, of Stonehaven, ran ashore on the South Gare Sand. The Middlesborough life-boat was towed again to the river's mouth, whence she proceeded to the sunken vessel and rescued her crew, 4 in...
Rose of England (1)
Tees mouth, and Redcar, Yorkshire.— At 6.40 in the evening of the 23rd of May, 1948, the South Gare coastguard reported both to Teesmouth and Redcar that a rowing boat, with three boys on board, was in difficulties near broken water...
Orientan of Lancaster
On the 26th October, 1859, the schooner Orientdtt, of Lancaster, having lost her sails, was driven ashore near Rhyl. The tubular life-boat stationed at that place was quickly launched, and, through a terrific sea, took off the crew of 6...
Francis, of Cardigan
At daylight, on ( the 6th February, after it had been blow- j ing a fresh gale all night, a schooner was j observed, about six miles from this place, with a flag of distress in the rigging. The Life-boat Sisters promptly went to her aid,...