LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
On the evening of the 3rd of April, 1960, nine local fishing boats left for Berwick Bay. By midnight the weather had deteriorated, and the southerly gale was accompanied by a very rough...
Naming Ceremonies: Two Station Lifeboats; at Blyth and Valentia and Two Relief Lifeboats
Relief Arun, at Newhaven, September 7 A weekend of severe gales and storms was followed by a glorious sunny day on Wednesday September 7, 1983, the day on which 52-25, a new 52ft Arun relief lifeboat provided by the trustees of the late L. G...
Category: Inaugurations
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BROADSTAIRS, KENT. — The boatmen at Broadstairs having some time since requested the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION to place one of its self-righting life-boats on that station, and it being considered that such a boat might be useful, in...
Category: Articles
The Twelve Medallists
From St. Helier, Ilfracombe, Appledore and Holyhead. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Below Wet and Windswept After Retrieving the Dummy the Crew
Below Wet and windswept after retrieving the dummy the crew (left to right) Alan Woods, Tommy Cocking, Eric Ward and Charlie Hodson find time for a debrief as the lifeboat heads back to the training centre.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Annual Report
AT the Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL SHIPWRECK INSTITUTION, held at the Offices of the Society, John Street, Adelphi, on Tuesday, the 11th day of April, 1854,, CAPTAIN SHEPHERD, H.C.S., Deputy Master of the Trinity House, VICE...
Category: Annual Reports
Eighty German Lives Saved
ON the afternoon of 29th October, a steamer arriving at Kingstown, on the south side of Dublin Bay, reported that a ship had gone ashore. A southerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea.
The Motor Life-boat was launched...
Category: Services