LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Catherine Shaun, of Fleetwood
Caister, Norfolk - At 8.45 p.m. on 22nd July, 1968, a life-boat helperinformed the motor mechanic that a radio message from the trawler Catherine Shaun of Fleetwood had been intercepted, reporting that she had an injured man on board who...
Effort
The ketch Effort, of Southampton, stranded on the Shingle Bank during a N.E. gale, on the 22nd January, and the heavy seas made a clean breach over her. At 5.30 P.M. the Life-boat Robert Fleming was launched and proceeded to. the as-...
Birds Eye Foods Ltd
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
Two Brave Life-Savers. Portlethen, Kincardineshire, and Southwold, Suffolk
Portlethen, Kincardineshire, and Southwold, Suffolk.
ON 26th November, 1924, two acts of great individual gallantry were per- formed in rescuing life from vessels stranded near the shore. One was on the rocky coast of...
Category: Services
The 52-Foot Arun Class Prototype Life-Boat During Her Thames Visit and (Below), Staff Coxswain R. Harding Working the Decca Super 101 Radar Which She Carries.
The 52-foot Arun class prototype life-boat during her Thames visit and (below), Staff Coxswain R. Harding working the Decca Super 101 radar which she carries.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hazardous Passage
FOR a service, in which he had to take his life-boat through a narrow, unchartered channel, infested with rocks, to a trawler whose bow was hard aground, Coxswain John Nicolson of Aith, Shetlands, has been awarded the R.N.L.I.'s silver...
Category: Services
A Rescue In a Snow-Storm
Bronze-Medal Service at Fraserburgh. SHORTLY before two o'clock in the morning of 18th January the Aberdeen trawler Evergreen, outward bound, with a crew of nine, went ashore in a snow- storm between Sandhaven and Rose- hearty, four...
Category: Services
Phoebe, of Goole
On the 3rd December, the Anna Maria life-boat on this station put off, during a strong gale, and rescued 2 men from the rigging of the schooner Phoebe, of Goole, which was stranded about a mile north of Winterton.
The...
27 Months of War.
In the first 27 months of war life-boats have rescued 4325 lives. They have rescued more lives in these 27 months than in the last twelve years of peace..
Category: Articles
Visitors to the London Storm Force
Visitors to the London Storm Force Rally on 12 August take a close look at some of the models on display.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs