LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
St. Leger, of Hull
At 4.42 p.m. on 3rd November, 1966 information was received that the trawler St. Leger, of Hull, was making for Bridlington Bay as one of her crew had a severely lacerated arm and needed hospital treatment. The life-boat TillieMorrison,...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
Walmer and Deal, Kent.—A Branch of the National Life-Boat Institution, under the above title, has been recently founded at Walmer, and a 30-feet; life-boat, on Mr. PEAKE'S plan, perfectly equipped both for sailing and rowing, and...
Category: Articles
The Rother Class James Cable Makes Her Final Pass Along the Beach at Aldeburgh on the Day Her Mersey Class Successor Arrived
The Rother class James Cable makes her final pass along the beach at Aldeburgh on the day her Mersey class successor arrived. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Neepawa, Fishing Boat Audrey, Lighter Elmsdale, Schooner Westward
Soutbend-on-Sea, Essex.—During the morning of the 23rd November, 1938, the barge Neepawa, of Rochester, was seen to be in distress a quarter of a mile east of the pier. A whole S.S.W.
gale was blowing, with a very rough sea...
Shamrock
At 5 A.M. on the 26th August the Coxswain of the Life-boat Mayheie Medwin received in- formation that there were no tidings of a small fishing yawl, the Shamrock, of Peel, which left Harbour at 10.30 A.M.
the previous day....
Shannons named
Volunteer crews welcomed new Shannon class lifeboats in the Summer.
The second Shannon to be placed on station arrived at Exmouth, Devon, on 12 May. At Dungeness in Kent, HRH The Princess Royal officially named and...
Category: Articles
Falmouth: the 52Ft Arun Lifeboat Elizabeth Ann Is Named at the Customs House Quay Photograph By Courtesy of 'Falmouth Packet'
Falmouth: The 52ft Arun lifeboat Elizabeth Ann is named at the Customs House Quay. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of 'Falmouth Packet'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Duke of Edinburgh Opens New Life-Boat Station
THE new life-boat station at the Lizard- Cadgwith was formally opened by H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, who is himself a member of the Committee of Management of the Institution, on the 7th July, 1961. His Royal Highness also named the new...
Category: Inaugurations
Six Fishing Cobles
The Life-boat Co-operator No. 1 was launched at 6.30 A.M. on the 24th May, to assist six of the fishing-cobles, which had gone to the fishing-grounds about 2.30. The wind was blowing moderately from E.S.E., but the sea became...
Sea Spray
Blackpool, Lancashire.—At about 9.50 P.M. on the 30th July, 1938, when the wind was freshening and the sea getting up, a cabin cruiser was seen to the south of the Central Pier. As she was approaching a lee shore, she was kept under...