LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Silver Eagle and Vine
STONEHAVEN, KINCARDINESHIRE.—The sea rose very suddenly, the waves dashing over the piers, on the 21st February, while some of the fishing-boats were at sea. At 11.30 A.M. the Life-boat Alexander Slack was launched, and made for the boats...
A Long and Hazardous Service
COXSWAIN John King of Bridlington has been awarded the Institution's bronze medal for gallantry for a service described in the official report as 'long, frustrat- ing and hazardous'. At the end of it the life-boat saved the life...
Category: Services
Dunira
A service characterised by conspicuous bravery was performed by this Life-boat on the 15th December. At about 8.10 P.M.
a vessel was observed burning flares about five miles due west of Port Patrick, and apparently drifting...
(Below Left) Getting Down to Detail: Devon Scouts Who Visitedbideford Shipyard on March 6 Were Shown Over \Vaveney 44-018 By Roger Sullivan Rnli Overseer Steel This
(Below left) Getting down to detail: Devon Scouts who visitedBideford Shipyard on March 6 were shown over Vaveney 44-018 by Roger Sullivan, RNLI overseer steel. This lifeboat, to the funding of which Scouts have contributed more than... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Llunelli Asc Organised a Sponsored Sea Swim In August and Raised £145 £80 of Which Was Raised By Susan Roach Who Presented the Cheque to Mrs Dorothy William
Llunelli ASC organised a sponsored sea swim in August and raised £145, £80 of which was raised by Susan Roach who presented the cheque to Mrs Dorothy Williams, chairman of Burry Port ladies' guild. Burry Port ILB was herself... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Ship and an Aeroplane
OCTOBER 20TH. - KILMORE, CO. WEX-FORD. At 6.30 in the evening a small tramp steamer was seen on her way westwards inside the Coningbeg Lightship, when two German aeroplanes attacked her. One aeroplane dropped three bombs, but they all missed...
Hauling Up: Coxswain Davies Is Holding One of the Ropes Which Have Taken the Lifeboat's Weight While the Winch Wire Was Attached Photograph By Courtesy of Peter Da
Hauling up: Coxswain Davies is holding one of the ropes which have taken the lifeboat's weight while the winch wire was attached. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Peter Davies. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Red Jacket and Ebenezer
On the 31st January, two rockets, indicating that the services of the Life-boat were required, were fired from Scurdyness.
The No. 1 Life-boat Robert Henderson was launched at 2.45 P.M., and rendered assistance to the...
Venus, Galilee, Pilot Me, Progress and Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 5th of June, 1953, it was noticed that conditions on the harbour bar were dangerous. Local fishing boats were at sea, and at nine o'clock the No. 2 harbour pulling life-boat Robert and Ellen...
Fishing Boats (1)
Wbitby, Yorkshire. At 11.30 on the morning of the 9th of March, 1960, the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth, after completing an engine trial, went to meet four local fishing vessels, which were returning to harbour in a strong east-south-easterly...