LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Belgian Yacht Haura (1)
Lifeboatmen transferred to Belgian yacht in gale and heavy seas A joint service by Southwold's Atlantic 21 class lifeboat Quiver and Lowestoft's Tyne Spirit of Lowestoft has won two lifeboatmen framed letters of thanks from the...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution (continued.)
BALLYWALTER, Co. DOWN.— On the evening of the 4th April, 1881, informa- tion was brought from the Coastguard Station that the Bell Buoy, a vessel which is placed about two miles off the shore to warn vessels off the Stullmartin Reef, had...
Category: Services
Raymond Baxter
Raymond Baxter, chairman of the RNLI's public relations committee is pictured with Roger Royle. presenter of BBC Television's "Songs oj Praise' programme and Barr Hartley. Editor of the Lowcstolt Journal, recipients of RNLI... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
September (1)
HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE. On the afternoon of the 30th June, 1941, two women with two small children were cut off by the rising tidebetween the baths and wooden jetty at Hoylake. The weather was fine and the sea calm. Their plight was seen from the...
Category: Services
Centenaries of Life-Boat Stations. Presentations of Vellums Signed By the Prince of Wales
Presentations of Vellums signed by the Prince of Wales.
THREE life-boat stations have cele- brated their centenaries this year: Berwick-on-Tweed, the Mumbles, Gla- morganshire, and Ferryside, Carmar- thenshire. In each...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
Edinburgh and R. M. Ballantyne, 30 feet long, 7 feet wide, 10 oars.
THE Life-boat Edinburgh and R. M, Ballantyne was placed on this station in 1866.
Port Logan is a small bay in Wigtonshire, on the...
Category: Articles
South Coaster
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT BARRY DOCK DECEMBER 6TH. - BARRY DOCK, GLAMORGANSHIRE. During the morning a whole gale was blowing from the north-west at Barry Dock on the south coast of Wales, and at 10.30 the life-boat station received news from...
An Aircraft
Humber, Yorkshire. At 6.11 on the evening of the 16th of January, 1958, the Spurn Point coastguard told the cox- swain superintendent that a local resident had heard an aircraft crash into the sea about four hundred yards from the old...
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the November, 1939, Meeting of the Committee of Management
Launches 111. Lives Rescued 124.
Services to vessels in distress through enemy action are marked • •• Other services arising out of the zcor are marked •.
November Meeting.
Walton and...
Category: Services
None (1)
Brighton and Shoreham lifeboat crews joined forces to assist fire officers during a fire that gutted the south end of Brighton's West Pier on 28 March 2003 The fire was raging out of control on the pier, with no way for fire teams to...