LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Ferry Speedlink Vanguard and Pirate Radio Ship Ross Revenge (1)
January storm ON SUNDAY JANUARY 6, 1985, northnorth- easterly winds of force 9 to storm force 10 hit the east coast and at 1812 that evening a message was received from the Sealink roll-on roll-off ferry, Speedlink Vanguard, that she had...
The 46Ft 9In Watson Relief Lifeboat William Gammon Manchester and District Xxx on Temporary Duty at Cromer Launches on Service to Diana V Photographs By Cou
The 46ft 9in Watson relief lifeboat William Gammon, Manchester and District XXX, on temporary duty at Cromer, launches on service to Diana V. - View image in PDF
photographs by courtesy of Poppyland Photographs. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
WICK NAMING
The naming ceremony and dedication of the new Wick, Caithness, life-boat Princess Marina —she is a 48-foot 6-inch Oakley Mark II— took place in September. H.R.H. Princess Alexandra named the boat, the cost of which was met from the H. M....
Category: Inaugurations
General Summary to the 16th Dec, 1865
Number of Lives rescued by Life-boats, in addition to 20 vessels saved by them . 444.
Amount of Rewards to Life-boat Crews . . . . . £1,570 18 11
Number...
Category: Annual Reports
Disaster at Arbroath
ON the night of the 26th of October, 1953, the Arbroath life-boat Robert Lindsay and the Anstruther life-boat James and Ruby Jackson were both launched in answer to distress rockets which had been seen three miles east of...
Category: Services
The S.S. Basildon
ESCORTED VESSELS Angle, Pembrokeshire. At 7.45 p.m.
on 28th July, 1965, the honorary secretary was notified by a shipping agency that the s.s. Basildon of London had broken down six miles south of...
Handy, of Wexford
On the 8th May the schooner Handy, of Wexford, was stranded in the South Bay during a strong N.E. gale and in a very heavy sea. The Civil Service life-boat went off and rescued 4 men of the vessel's crew. Owing to the violence of the sea...
The Viscount and Viscountess Wakefield With Their Life-Boat at Hythe
The Viscount and Viscountess Wakefield With Their Life-Boat at Hythe. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Belfast Centenary Meeting
Front row, left to right:—The Marquess of Londonderry, K.G., Captain the Viscount .Curzon, R.N.V.R., M.P., the Lord Mayor (Sir William Turner) the Governor (the Duke of Abercprn) Councillor H.M Launn (High Sheriff), the Marquess of Dufferin... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pool In the Pool! Competitors
Pool in the pool! Competitors cued up in sub aqua equipment to take the plunge after two full-size tables were lowered into Crosby swimming pool. Spectators watched through special viewing holes below the waterline and many joined in the fun... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs