LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM. At about 3 in the afternoon of the 19th of September, 1943, the 18-ton motor fishing boat Alexandra, with a crew of five, was fishing some 10 miles east-north-east of Heugh Light in Hartlepool Bay, when the men saw an...

Exmouth, Devonshire.—On the morning of the 21st January the coastguard telephoned that the Lyme Regis harbour- master had reported a vessel apparently adrift from her moorings.

He later reported that she had anchored off...

Karemma ashore after her crew of five had been taken off by the 52' Barnett lifeboat Ramsay- Dyce on her last service at Aberdeen . . .. - View image in PDF

HELMSMAN A. Thirlby and his crew, Mr. P. Pemberthy and Mr. R. Hacking, of the St. Ives IRB, have been awarded a framed letter of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., for their...

THE Life-boat Enthusiasts' Society is now in its eighth year. It was formed in 1964 and at the outset had only eight members. From this very small beginning membership has grown over the years. At first progress was slow, but in the last...

The Institution has received, carefully packed in cotton wool, 46 sovereigns and n half sovereigns. All but two have Queen Victoria's head, and their dates range from 1845 to 1901. They came with the message -for those in peril on the...

The R.N.L.I's charter doe* not make provision Tor the preservation uf old lifeboats and equipment, and the National Lifeboat Museum Bristol was therefore established as an independent registered charily for this...

FIVE years' experience by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION of the new class of life-boats, designed by JAMES PEAKE, Esq., of Her Majesty's Dock-yard, Woolwich, and elicited by the prize of 100 guineas given by His Grace the Duke of...