LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Boy Eric
Exmouth, South Devon - At 10.7 p.m. on I2th June, 1966, it was reported that red flares had been sighted about two miles off Orcombe point. The lifeboat Michael Stevens left her moorings at 10.20 in a moderate to fresh south south easterly...
Boy Alan
Seaham, Durham - At 7.33 p.m. on 22nd December, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that flares had been sighted south of Seaham. The life-boat Amelia, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 7.38 in a strong south...
Boy Jermyn
OCTOBER 20TH. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 11.30 on the night of the 19th the coastguard reported that a steamer in the harbour was making signals of distress. A strong westerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The life-boat crew...
£2,136 from Austin Motors
Starting in March 1942 the Austin Motor Company gave the Institution during the war one shilling for each horse power of every engine which it built for ships' life-boats. These gifts made a total of £1,123. The company also held a...
Category: Articles
Our "Life-Boat Saturday" Fund
ANOTHER year of " Life-boat Saturday " work has closed, and notwithstanding the great hindrance to advancement in the shape of a General Election, and County Council and School Board Elec- tions, good progress has been made, up-...
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The Storeyard's Children's Party
THE sixth Christmas Party, given by the staff of the Storeyard at Poplar, with the help of the staff at Head- quarters, to poor children of Poplar, took place on 4th January at the Bromley Public Hall. There were 170 children present....
Category: Articles
The S.S. Windsor Queen
Amble, Northumberland.—In the late afternoon of the 21st of July, 1948, the coastguard reported that the s.s. Wind- sor Queen, of London, which was off Coquet Island, had an injured man on board, and the motor life-boat Elizabeth Newton, on...
Mary
Hythe, Kent.—At about 8.15 P.M. on the 23rd May, 1939, the motor life-boat Viscountess Wakefield was off Beachy Head on passage from Cowes to her station after overhaul. There she saw the motor cruiser Mary, of Chichester, with her engine...
Returning from Service
The Whitby motor life-boat coming home in a strong gale, after standing by the Italian steamer Comitas for over seven hours, on 28th October, 1933. (See page 209.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs