LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Vessel
Shortly after 5 A.M. j on the 1st November signals of distress were observed from the Gull Light- vessel, and the Life-boat Charles D.ibdin was launched. A heavy sea was running at the time. When the boat reached the Light-vessel they...
Ceremonies
When Her Majesty The Queen, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, named a new lifeboat at Ramsgate on Friday 16 July, it was an historic occasion in more ways than one. This was the first time that a lifeboat was named in honour of a...
Category: Inaugurations
Holly Phillips Has Been a Crew Member of Poole Lifeboat Since October 1994.
Holly Phillips has been a crew member of Poole lifeboat since October 1994.
Holly's appointment brought the number of serving women crew members to 100 for the first time in the RNLI's... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Henry Cooper, Hero of Sporting Britain, Announced His Retirement from Boxing After Losing His European, British and Commonwealth Titles at the Empire Pool, Wembley, on 16Th March, 1971, to J
Henry Cooper, hero of sporting Britain, announced his retirement from boxing after losing his European, British and Commonwealth titles at the Empire Pool, Wembley, on 16th March, 1971, to Joe Bugner. But Henry Cooper still had time for the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Margaret and Francis (1)
Aberdeen, and Newburgh, Aberdeenshire.
—On the morning of the 16th December the Cockenzie drifter Margaret and Francis was bound, light, from Burghead to Leith, with a crew of three on board. A whole southerly gale was...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BACTON, NORFOLK.—The Institution replaced the life-boat on this station last October, by a new boat 33 feet long, rowing 10 oars double-banked, and provided with a transporting-carriage. The old boat, while out on service, had been damaged,...
Category: Articles
Guiding Hand
At 1233 on Tuesday November 18, a mayday was received by Dover Coastguard from the trawler Guiding Hand, on fire six miles north east of Ramsgate.
Her four crew were fighting the fire. A helicopter was scrambled from RAF...
A Silver Medal Service at Cloughey
ON 9th May, 1939, the s.s. Arantzazu- Mendi, of Bilbao, went aground on Butter Paddy shoals, outside Kearney Point, Co. Down. Efforts were made to salve her, and there was a salvage party on board on 17th June. A strong S.S.W. wind was...
Category: Services
The American Tanker Tillamook
DECEMBER 4TH. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE.
A salvage officer had wished to board the American tanker Tillamook, which had gone ashore. but the invasion defences prevented the life-boat from getting alongside. - No expense...
(Above) Criccieth Reopened In 1953: Dedication and First Launch of the 35Ft 6In Liverpool Richard Silver Oliver a D Class Ilb Has Been Stationed at Criccieth Since 196
(Above) Criccieth, reopened in 1953: Dedication and first launch of the 35ft 6in Liverpool Richard Silver Oliver. - View image in PDF
A D class ILB has been stationed at Criccieth since 1967.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs