LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Seaham Lifeboat Launches for the Last Time Photograph By Courtesy of the 'Echo' Sunderland
Seaham lifeboat launches for the last time. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of the 'Echo' Sunderland. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Tank Steamer Pass of Ballater
Peel, and Port Erin, Isle of Man.—On the night of the 1st December, 1938, information from the coastguard was received at both life-boat stations that the tank steamer Pass of Ballater, of London, was in distress and needed tugs. A moderate...
A Sponsored Marathon Dinghy Race Originally Due to Last for 24 Hours Was Cut to 12 Hours By High Winds the Distance Covered By Entrants In the Race Which Was Org
A sponsored marathon dinghy race, originally due to last for 24 hours, was cut to 12 hours by high winds. The distance covered by entrants in the race, which was organised by Wyboston Sailing Club, ranged from 30 to 40 miles. More than £... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services by Shore-boats
Thirteen Medals for Gallantry RHOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY On the 28th August, 1941, determined efforts were made to rescue the crew of a British aeroplane which had crashed in the sea.
MR. DERRICK H. BAYNHAM was awarded the silver...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
ROSSLARE HARBOUR, co. WEXFORD.— During a moderate E.S.E. gale on the 1st January signals of distress were observed at 9.30 A.M. on a schooner lying at anchor in Rosslare Bay. The crew of the Life-boat Tom and Jennie were assembled, and in a...
Category: Services
The Fundraisers
Bear necessities Mrs Mary Woods of Hamble ladies' guild, has been knitting personalized teddy bears since 1984, and the proceeds of the sale some 466 teddies has provided three Neil Robertson stretchers for Beaumaris, Eastbourne and...
Category: Articles
Wrecks
DURING the past week ending 16th December, 49 wrecks have been reported—making a total for the present year of 3,208.—Shipping Gazette.
Such is the brief but forcible record which has caught our eye as we were going to...
Category: Articles
FOREVER BY THE SEA
Keep a loved on forever by the sea with an online tribute.
Category: Advertisement
Killed on Service. Death of the Scarborough Bowman
AT 11.14 on the morning of the 9th of December, 1951, the news came to the Scarborough life-boat station that a ship was sinking twenty-six and a half miles east by north of Scarborough.
She was a Dutch motor vessel of 499...
Category: Services
Cdr Leslie Hill Answers the Questions of the Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr Anthony Barber on the Rnll's Principal Exhibit An Atlantic 21Ilb (Below) Photograph By C
Cdr Leslie Hill answers the questions of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Anthony Barber on the RNLl's principal exhibit, an Atlantic 21ILB (below). - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Fox Photos. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs