LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Old friends in the Fund
Volunteers in New Brighton, Wirral, became the proud owners of a new inshore lifeboat in November 2009. This Summer, the B class will be given a special name, marking her place in a long line of lifeboats provided by The Lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Servic
Hartlepool, Co. Durham, and Tees- mouth, Yorkshire. At 5.10 on the morning of the 13th of December, 1957, the South Gare coastguard told the Teesmouth honorary secretary that a vessel was firing rockets one mile north of the breakwater. At 5...
Shirley May
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 10.30 on the morning of the 9th of October, 1957, a message was received from theAlderney harbour master that three men had put out in a boat to go fishing and had not returned. They had been last seen at six...
On Fire
The Cardiff steamer Porthcawl, from which the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston motor life-boat rescued twenty-five men on 14th September. - View image in PDF
This photograph was taken from the air. (See page 162.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On Fire
The Marie Moller off Holyhead, 22nd March, 1937 (See opposite page.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Atta Boy
Margate, Kent.—At 7.27 on the even- ing of the 29th of August, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that three men in a boat were in difficulties off Foreness Point and were drifting out to sea. At 7.30 the life-boat North Foreland, Civil...
Tom Jenkinson,
Tom Jenkinson, coxswain of the Filey lifeboat from 1967 to 1980.
Tom first joined the Filey lifeboat crew in 1947 and became bowman in 1959. He was appointed second coxswain in 1963.
Category: Obituaries
Aquability
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Category: Advertisement
Gem, of Eyemouth
NORTH SUNDERLAND.— On the 24th August the Life-boat Joseph Anstice was launched to the assistance of the fishing vessel Gem, of Eyemouth, which had got ashore near that port during a strong breeze and heavy sea. The Life-boat, by timely...