LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Miss Letitia French, Honorary Secretary of the Palling Station
BY the death of Miss Letitia French, of Palling, Suffolk, on 6th April, the Institution has lost a most valued helper and one who had the distinction of having been, for a number of years, the only woman Honorary Secretary of a Station. Miss...
Category: Obituaries
A 100-Foot Length of Avon Inflatable Tendering Bent and Anchored Across the Mouth of Little Venice, London, to Contain the Oil Slick.
A 100-foot length of Avon inflatable tendering bent and anchored across the mouth of Little Venice, London, to contain the oil slick.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Institution's First Gold Medallist
AT the end of the first Annual Report of the Institution, published on 10th March, 1825, is a list of thirty-two services for which it had given rewards during its first year. The first of these services took place on 10th July, 1824, and...
Category: Medals
Brita, a Shetland Type Motor Boat, and Angling Boat Ondermining
Triple call-out NOVEMBER 1, 1986 proved to be a cold day, with a partly overcast sky and anorth-westerly wind, force 5 to 6 blowing along the Essex coast.
At 1107 Thames coastguard alerted the deputy launching authority of...
Peter Varkevisser
ABERSOCH.—Signals ot distress were seen in the vicinity of St. Tudwall's Sound and rockets were fired from St.
Tudwall's Lighthouse on the morning of the 13th January. The Life-boatOldham was launched at 6...
Mersey, of Liverpool
On the 5th June, the schooner Mersey, of Liverpool, went on the South Bishop Rock and sank. Signals of distress were made by the light- keepers, whereupon the Life-boat Augusta proceeded out, and brought the vessel's crew of 4 men safely...
Meeting Heavy Seas
At Scarborough on December 16th, 1938. - View image in PDF
(See page 41.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs Jean Woosnam
Mrs Jean Woosnam, honorary secretary of Wilmslow Branch since 1976. She was awarded a silver badge in 1988..
Category: Obituaries
6. Amy, Daughter of Gary Collett, a Boat Builder at the Ilc, Presents a Bouquet to Lynn Faulds Wood
6. Amy, daughter of Gary Collett, a boat builder at the ILC, presents a bouquet to Lynn Faulds Wood during the naming ceremony of the Mersey class lifeboat Bingo Lifeline. Photo Janet Smith The two naming ceremonies are described in more... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Fishing Boat (17)
OCTOBER 27TH. - HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.
A fishing boat had been reported in difficulties, but did not need help. - Rewards, £14 19s..