LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lottery Winners Mr and Mrs Fisher at the Helm of Hoylake's Mersey Class Lifeboat
Lottery winners Mr and Mrs Fisher at the helm of Hoylake's Mersey class lifeboat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
IRB Launches
Rescues by IRBs in June were carried out by the following stations: NORTH-EASTERN DISTRICT Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 7 p.m. on 27th June, 1966, a dinghy was reported adrift half a mile to seaward of Skipsea.
The IRB was...
Category: Services
The Life-Boat Journal In South America
THE following is an extract from a letter received from a lady in Palermo, Buenos Aires: " The magazine is most interesting.I pass it on to a gentleman in the interesting.
camp, who sends it to other isolated...
Category: Articles
S.S. Ila
JANUARY 21ST. - RAMSGATE, KENT At 4 P.M. news was received that a Nor-wegian steamer was ashore near the North Goodwin Light-vessel and that the naval authorities were sending a tug to investigate.
A second message from the...
Clarissa, of Bideford
JUNE 20TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
A message was received from the police that a vessel was flashing a lamp in Conway Bay. A light south-west wind was blowing and the sea choppy. At eleven o’clock the motor life-boat...
New Committee of Management Members
Major General Ralph H. Farrant, C.B., and Mr. Michael Vernon have been elected to the Committee of Management of the Institution.
Major General Farrant is President of the Ordnance Board, War Office.
He...
Category: Committee
(Above) Children from Coxheath Infants School Raised £200 for Sheerness Lifeboat Station With a Sponsored Walk Around Their School Field When They Visited the Station The
(Above) Children from Coxheath Infants School raised £200 for Sheerness lifeboat station with a sponsored walk around their school field. When they visited the station they brought with them a painting of a lifeboat by six-year-old... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Water Lily
On the 27th May, while a strong gale was blowing from the N.N.E., with a very heavy sea and thick weather, a vessel was seen making for the Cockle Gat. Her sails were blowing about, and when the weather cleared a flag was observed in the...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.—A life-boat station, in connection with the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, has been established at New Brighton, on the south shore of the Mersey, near Liverpool, and a tubular lifeboat, on the plan of the late H....
Category: Articles
A Sponsored Row from Bristol to Appledore Which Was Attempted By Crew Members from Appledore Unfortunately Had to Be Abandoned After About 20 Miles Due to Strong Winds and Aggravation
A sponsored row from Bristol to Appledore which was attempted by crew members from Appledore, unfortunately had to be abandoned after about 20 miles due to strong winds and aggravation to an old hand injury of one of the rowers.
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Category: Photographs