LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Above) on Receipt of Distress Messages Hm Coastguard Alerts Lifeboat Stations Co-Ordinates Search and Rescue Operations and Is the Link Between Lifeboat and Honor
(Above) On receipt of distress messages HM Coastguard alerts lifeboat stations, co-ordinates search and rescue operations and is the link between lifeboat and honorary secretary.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Right) a Visit to St.Mary's Lifeboat Station While Holidaying In the Scil/Y Isles 22 Years Ago Began a Lifelong Interest In Lifeboats for Mr and Mrs Derrick Waters Since The
(Right) A visit to St Mary's lifeboat station while holidaying in the Scil/y Isles 22 years ago began a lifelong interest in lifeboats for Mr and Mrs Derrick Waters. Since then, they and their children, Carolyn, Stephen and David, have... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ocean Maid, of Holy Island
FEBRUARY 11TH. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 1.15 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that a fishing coble was showing a signal of distress three miles east of Holy Island. The motor life-boat Milburn was...
Ceremonies
North Sunderland Mersey class Grace Darling Despite forecasts of heavy rain, the morning of Tuesday 24 September dawned bright.
However, there was also a Force 8/9 gale which caused the naming ceremony site at North...
Category: Inaugurations
Fairway of Deal
Walmer, Kent - At 1.20 p.m. on llth February, 1969, news was received that the motor boat Fairway of Deal, with four anglers on board, had broken down threequarters of a mile south east of the life-boat house.
At 1.32 the...
Rear Admiral Desmond Hoare Has Been Accorded the Institution's Sincere Thanks On
Rear Admiral Desmond Hoare has been accorded the Institution's sincere thanks on vellum for the experimental design work he did for rigid inflatable lifeboats while Provost of the United College of the Atlantic, as well as for his work... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Captain Andrew Stephen, of Fraserburgh
CAPTAIN ANDREW STEPHEN, harbour- master of Fxaserburgh, who died on the 30th of December, 1948, was joint honorary secretary of the life-boat station for over eleven years. He was appointed towards the end of 1936, and retired at the...
Category: Obituaries
Crossing the Bar
A trawler entering Aberdeen Harbour on 29th January, 1937. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Grace Darling
WHO has not heard of GRACE DARLING, the heroine of the Longstone Lighthouse? whose name, associated with the wreck of the Forfarshire steamer, will long be remembered amongst the annals of those who, although holding humble stations in life,...
Category: Articles