LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
General Summary to the 16th Dec, 1865
Number of Lives rescued by Life-boats, in addition to 20 vessels saved by them . 444.
Amount of Rewards to Life-boat Crews . . . . . £1,570 18 11
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Category: Annual Reports
Gretafield
FEBRUARY 4TH. - WHITEHILLS, BANFFSHIRE WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE, AND FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 1.20 A.M. a message was received at Whitehills from the coastguard at Banff that flares had been reported about ten miles N.E....
Just one inch of water
Drowning is a silent epidemic that claims an estimated 360,000 lives
every year, many of them children. This summer, we brought this to the attention of world leaders, with a photographic exhibition at the UN Headquarters in New...
Category: Articles
Last of the Sailing Life-Boats
Last of the Sailing Life-Boats The William Cantrell Ashley Sails Away From New Quay Cardigan. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat In Water-Colour
A water-colour study of a life-boat launching which won a holiday cruise to Russia and Scandinavia for Barry Ketley, 17 year old Hull schoolboy. He entered the painting in the Daily Mail New Year Schools' Contest and was one of 24...
Category: Drawings
Captain W. R. Graham, of Cemaes, Anglesey
Captain W. R. Graham, of Cemaes, who died last February, had been Honorary Secretary of the Cemaes Bay District since 1921. Before that he had been the Honorary Treasurer for many years. He was an enthusiastic worker, organizing several...
Category: Obituaries
Cleethorpes' D Class Lifeboat During the Fruitless Search on a Bitterly Cold Night on 25 February
Cleethorpes' D class lifeboat during the fruitless search on a bitterly cold night on 25 February. - View image in PDF
(Photo Grimsby Evening Telegraph). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishing Boat Aground Off Buckie
AT 1.22 on the morning of 10th October, 1967, the honorary secretary of the Buckie life-boat station, Mr. A. J. I. Wilson, learnt from the coastguard that a fishing boat was aground on the West Muck rocks about a quarter of a mile north west...
Category: Services
A Lenten Vow
THE life-boat service has benefited by £5 as the result of a vow by two army officers on Salisbury Plain. The}7 bound themselves to "a particular Lenten abstention," and the penalty for failure was to be a cheque for £2...
Category: Donations
Mr. Edmund Gwenn As the Coxswain
Mr Edmund Gwenn As The Coxswain. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs