LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats (1)
JAN. 19TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
During the morning the fishing fleet put to sea, and by 2 P.M. all but four boats had returned. At this time a fresh S.E. breezewas blowing, with a strong sea and a dense fog. These...
Reine de la Mer
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands.—At 8.15 on the evening of the 23rd of March, 1955, a man reported that a small vessel had entered Porthcressa Bay, apparently on her way to St. Mary's for shelter.
He later said the...
The 46-Feet Gorleston Type of Motor Life-Boat
The 46-Feet Gorleston Type of Motor Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Weston-Super-Mare Life-Boat Rescues Sea Cadets
(See page 263). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sailboards
Local knowledge vital in rescue of two missing boardsailors Helmsman Martin Icke of Portsmouth's Atlantic inshore lifeboat has been awarded the Thanks of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution inscribed on Vellum after the lifeboat...
The Fishing Factory Ship Cornelius Vrolijk
Saved 21 GALWAY BAY LIFEBOAT, the 48ft 6in Solent R. Hope Roberts slipped her moorings at 0715 on Sunday, November 9, 1986, after the Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre at Shannon had alerted the station honorary secretary to the plight of...
Royal Silver Jubilee, 1910-1935
IN 1935 the Institution received a gift of £3,000 from Mrs. E. W. Montford, J.P., of Market Drayton, Shropshire, who is patron of the Stoke-on-Trent Ladies' Life-boat Guild, to provide a motor life-boat as a thank-offering for the...
Category: Donations
Mr Tom Brown
MARCH 1988: Mr Tom Brown, honorary secretary of Ramsgate lifeboat station from 1974 until his retirement in 1979..
Category: Obituaries
The Angling Vessel Badger
Pushed to the limit Two inshore lifeboats were tested to their limits on 9 March 2002, when an angling vessel with a crew of three was in difficulty 1.5 miles from Southend-on-Sea. The weather was fair and dry.
but there...