LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Nimrod
The barqueNimrod, of Liverpool, was seen to be burning flares on the Holm Sand at 7.30 P.M. on the 18th November, during a gale of wind from the S. and a high sea. The No. 1 Life-boat Two Sisters, Mary and Hannah, was launched, proceeded to...
A Gallant Mechanic
ON 21st October last the mechanic of the Hartlepool Motor Life-boat, Mr.
H. W. Jefferson, was at work in the Boat-house cleaning the engine. He went on deck to turn the crank-shaft by hand, and the engine backfired and set...
Category: Articles
Prince Charles Had a Word for Everyone Bill Adams Extreme Right and Tom Nutman Dl (Scotland North) Fifth from Right Photograph By Courtesy of Daily Express
Prince Charles had a word for everyone . . .
Bill Adams, extreme right, and Tom Nutman, Dl (Scotland, north), fifth from right.
photograph by courtesy of Daily Express . . . and accepted an invitation to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fairwinds
YACHT TOWED INTO HARBOUR Weymouth, Dorset. At 6.24 on the evening of the 5th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing distress flares two miles south of Portland Bill.
The life...
(Below) Miss Sylvia Clarke Names the Relief Fleet D Class Lifeboat Sea Ranger
(below) Miss Sylvia Clarke names the relief fleet D class lifeboat Sea Ranger under the watchful eye of Anthony Oliver, the RNLI's deputy head of fundraising and marketing.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Comforter
CLACTON-ON-SEA. — In response to messages by telephone and signal guns fired from the Swin Middle Light-Vessel, on the morning of the 22nd March, the Life-boat Albert Edward was launched at 8.50 and found the brig Comforter, of Tonsberg,...
The New Lerwick Life-Boat Arrives at Her Station
The New Lerwick Life-Boat Arrives at Her Station. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Soudan (1)
CAISTER, NORFOLK, and GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.— On the afternoon of the 7th November, during hazy weather, signal guns were heard from the St. Nicholas Lightship off the coast of Norfolk, in response to which the Gorleston Life-boat Mark Lane was...
March
MARCH Launches 90. Lives rescued 132.
MARCH 2ND. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON. At 4.30 A.M. information was received from the King’s Harbour Master that signals of distress were being shewn in Jennycliffe Bay, and the motor life-boat...
Category: Services
Lilian & The Motor Fishing Boats Irene and Faith
The Whitby Motor Life-boat Margaret Harker-Smith put out in a moderate N.E. breeze with a moderately rough sea at 12.50 P.M. on 15th December, as the sea was growing worse and some anxiety was felt for the small fishing-coble Lilian, which...