LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Picture of Success
Lady Winifred Hilton with the Deputy Mayor of Chesterfield as he presents the painting to raffle winner, Commander S. Sampson RN(Retd). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The War Department Motor Vessel Caddel
NOVEMBER 3RD. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
At 5.42 in the evening, information was received from the naval authorities at Great Yarmouth, through the coastguard, that a motor vessel; outside Wells harbour, was leaking and in need of...
Britannia, of Belfast
On the even- ing of 24th February, the smack Bri- tannia, of Belfast, being observed riding heavily to her anchors, in an exposed position, during a strong gale from N.E., with the night coming on, the Life-boat John Turner-Turner was...
Harmony
— The schooner Harmony, of Preston, while bound from Garston to Wexford with a cargo of coal, ran ashore on the Black- water Bank, on the 24th April, and became a total wreck. Her signals of distress were observed by the Coast- guard, who...
Eleanor Anne, of Padstow
Padstow, Cornwall - At 7.30 p.m. on 18th October, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen six miles from Port Isaac. The life-boat Joseph Hiram Chadwick slipped her moorings at 8 o'clock The...
Rewards for Saving Life from Shipwreck
ONE of the most important features in the organisation of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION, independently of the establishment of Life-boats by it, is to encourage laudable efforts by every available means to save life from ship- wreck...
Category: Articles
Visit of Exeter Ladies' Life-Boat Guild to Plymouth, 1928
On board the Motor Life-boat " Robert and Marcella Beck.". - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Edwin Basset, of Sunderland
On the 4th Feb.
the Cahore Life-boat Sir George Bowles, in answer to signals of distress shown from the barque Edwin Basset, of Sunderland, proceeded through a heavy sea and strong breeze to that vessel, from which, she...
The Institution's Oldest Supporters
THE Institution has received her annual subscription from a lady in Dumfriesshire who is now in her 104th year. Two years ago she doubled her subscription, feeling how uncertain her next year's subscription must...
Category: Donations
Another Wrist Watch Awarded to Boy
About 11.40 on the morning of the 31st July, 1962, an 11-foot dinghy capsized about a mile north-west of St.
Helens fort off Bembridge in the Isle of Wight. There were three people aboard, a Mr. Gleave and his eleven-...
Category: Awards