LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Left) Lifeboatmen Wearing Bulky Cork Lifejackets, As Depicted In a Nineteenth Century Oil Painting
Left) Lifeboatmen Wearing Bulky Cork Lifejackets, As Depicted In A Nineteenth Century Oil Painting.
Category: Drawings
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To ANDREW WHITE, on his retirement, after serving for 31J years as coxswain and 2 years as bowman of the Donaghadee life- boat, a coxswain's certificate of service and an annuity.
To JOSIAH WHEATLEY, on his retirement,...
Category: Awards
A Glider (1)
SEPTEMBER 18TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
At 1.38 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a glider was down in the sea one and a half miles south-east of Aldeburgh.
A north-easterly wind was blowing,...
Pierre Loti One of France's Latest 'All Seasons' Lifeboats
Pierre Loti, one of France's latest 'all seasons' lifeboats.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Left–Right: The lifeboat Alexandra now welcomes guests as a B&B; Work inderway on the Manchester and Salford restoration; the Manchester and Salford’s naming ceremony in 1924
Left–Right: The lifeboat Alexandra now welcomes guests as a B&B; Work inderway on the Manchester and Salford restoration; the Manchester and Salford’s naming ceremony in 1924 - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Jannenna
Walmer, Kent - At 9.58 p.m. on 28th September, 1969, the honorary secretary intercepted radio messages between the coastguard and the South Goodwin lightship which reported red flares from a cabin cruiser abeam the South Foreland light, two...
None (3)
Galway Bay. At n p.m. on i8th July, 1965, a child was taken by currach from Inishere to Kilronan with serious arm injuries. After examining the child the doctor requested the use of the lifeboat to take the child to hospital. As the tide was...
The Sail Training Ship Malcolm Miller
Sick watch-leader evacuated from sail training ship WHILE St Helier's Tyne was away for engine repairs (see story page 4) the relief Waveney Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse I! was involved in a medical evacuation from the 130ft sail...
Moss Rose (2)
Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 9.30 a.m. on 27th November, 1965, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that the fishing coble Moss Rose was at sea in weather that was likely to deteriorate and that he wished to go to the landing to...
Foxglove and Faith Star
Whitby, Yorkshire. — Shortly after nine o'clock on the morning of the 29th of November, 1950, while the Whitby fishing fleet was at sea, it was reported that a strong northerly gale had developed, causing a heavy swell.