LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Naming Ceremonies
Six new life-boats were named in 1955.
Four are in Scotland at Stornoway, Stronsay, Stromness, and Troon; two are in England at Southend-on-Sea and Fowey. An account of the Southend naming ceremony appeared in the September...
Category: Inaugurations
Life-boats Lost
The Hythe, Kent, life-boat did not return from Dunkirk. The Tynemouth life-boat was destroyed in her house by a bomb. Three new life-boats were destroyed by bombs in the building-yard at Cowes. The life-boats at St.
Helier,...
Category: Articles
The Coaster Union Star Overwhelmed and on the Rocks West of Tater-Du Lighthouse Photograph By Courtesy of Rnas Culdrose
The coaster Union Star overwhelmed and on the rocks west of Tater-du Lighthouse. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of RNAS Culdrose. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Scarborough's Mersey Class Lifeboat Fanny Victoria Coaster Vineta Wilkinson and Frank Stubbs Stands By the 1700-Ton
Scarborough's Mersey class lifeboat Fanny Victoria coaster Vineta. - View image in PDF
Wilkinson and Frank Stubbs stands by the 1,700-ton Photo Scarborough Evening News. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Galway Bay. At i p.m. on 24th October, 1965, the local doctor asked for the use of the life-boat to take a boy with a broken arm to the mainland for hospital treatment. No other suitable boat was available. The life-boat Mary Stanford, on...
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Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 9.5 on the evening of the 13th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a boy had fallen over the cliffs at Horseshoe Bay and had been seriously injured. At 9.11, when the life- boat Jesse...
A Dinghy and Stella
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—On the afternoon of the 29th July the Sizewell coastguard reported that a cabincruiser, which was being towed by a yawl, had broken adrift half a mile N.E. of the coastguard station, and that it was not certain if anyone...
Actuosity
— On the night of the 21st October the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station at Nells Point telephoned that a vessel was ashore at Colhugh Point, and the motor life-boat Prince David was launched at 10.50 p.m. A moderate to strong S.S.W. breeze...
United States Life-Saving Service
WE have received the Annual Report 01 the operations of the United States Life- Saving Service for the year ended the 30th June, 1890, issued from the Govern- ment Printing Office at Washington in 1892, the Service being a branch of the...
Category: Articles
Candy
Early warning saves three The eagle eyes and quick thinking of RNLI tractor driver Philip Eaglen helped to ensure that a father and his two sons were rescued before it was too late.
At 3.30pm on 2 September 2000, Philip was...