LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Catherine
The Sisters' Memorial life-boat on this station was called out on service on the 4th November, the Dutch brigantine Catharina driving ashore and becoming a total wreck in Llandudno Bay on that day in a strong gale from the N.N.W. and a...
Maxwell
The full-rigged ship Maxwell, 1,800 tons, of Liverpool, left that port on the morning of the 19th July, bound for San Francisco with a cargo of coal. She was towed by the steam-tug Great Western and, on arriving near the North-West...
Whitby Sunday October 19 1980: at 1030 a Converted Ship's Lifeboat Was Seen Heading Towards the Harbour Entrance Conditions Were Very Dangerous With a Very Heavy Swell and Breaking Sea
Whit by, Sunday October 19, 1980: At 1030 a converted ship's lifeboat was seen heading towards the harbour entrance.
Conditions were very dangerous, with a very heavy swell and breaking seas at the bar and in the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Henry Harvey and Rebecca
On the following day a very severe »ale was experienced here, the wind blowing with hurricane force from the N.N.W. and the sea being very heavy.
The Thomas Fielden Life-boat was called out five times. On three...
Today
The new Gourdon life-boat, Edith Clauson - Thue. They are of the same type, the light Liverpool, but sixteen years have changed it. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Books
• A new, updated version of Gillian Howie and Gillian Zealand's history of Arbroath's lifeboats May 1982 has been compiled by Alasdair M. Sutherland, himself a crew member. With the aid of photographic illustrations Arbroath Lifeboat...
Category: Articles
End of An Exercise: Dover's 44' Waveney Lifeboat Faithful Forester Tows In Two American Inflatable Assault Boats: August 19 1975 Photograph By Courtesy of Associated N
End of an exercise: Dover's 44' Waveney lifeboat Faithful Forester tows in two American inflatable assault boats: August 19, 1975. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Associated Newspapers. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Classifieds
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Competitive Trials With Pulling Life-Boats
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION carried out at Lowestoft in 1892 a series of competitive trials and tests with, sailing Life-boats the details of which were subsequently published. The trials with the various types of pulling Life-boats...
Category: Articles
The Naming of Mabel E Holland 1957: John Oilier Fred Richardson Tom Richard 'sen' Tart James Tart Robert Tart Jack 'son' Oilier Ernie Cawdron (Rnli District Engi
The naming of Mabel E. Holland, 1957: John Oilier, Fred Richardson, Tom Richard 'Sen' Tart, James Tart, Robert Tart, Jack 'Son' Oilier, Ernie Cawdron (RNLI District Engineer), John Thomas (Peter Thomas' father), George... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs