LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Slava
MARCH 16TH. - BARRY DOCK, GLAMORGANSHIRE, AND MINEHEAD, SOMERSET. The Yugo-Slav steamer Slava, of Susak, had been torpedoed five and a half miles N.E. of Foreland Point, near Lynmouth, but the survivors were picked up by another vessel. -...
A Team of Bowler-Hatted Waiters
A team of bowler-hatted waiters provided some oldfashioned service from the bar at Henley-on-Thames branch Old Tyme Music Hall last October. On an evening when manv of the audience also came in costume to join in the fun, £600 was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
River Thames Jubilee Pageant: Sheerness Lifeboat Helen Turnbull With Hmy Britannia at Tower Bridge (Below) and (Right) Embarking the Lard Mayor of Westminster
River Thames Jubilee Pageant: Sheerness lifeboat Helen Turnbull with HMY Britannia at Tower Bridge (below) and (right) embarking the Lard Mayor of Westminster, for whom she acted as barge. (Left) A fundraising cruise up the Thames following... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
John Geddes Chairman of Peterhead Branch
Overbearing presence? Ed MacFarland (I), general manager of Marathon Oil operations office in Aberdeen presents a cheque for $10,000 to John Geddes, chairman of Peterhead branch, in the company of a reasonably benevolent looking witness. The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Charity Fund
Larry Lamberton (right), Whitstable lifeboat station honorary secretary and crew member Nick Dawkins (centre) recently received a cheque for £500 from Ian Pearson, manager of Brett Asphalt.
Last year the company set up... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dalhanna and Staxton Wyke
Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 3.30 on the morning of the 23rd of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was sinking sixteen miles south-east of Flamborough Head. At four o'clock the life-boat Friendly...
Milan
PORT EYNON.—At 7 P.M. on the 13th January the Daughter's Offering Life-boat was launched during a dense fog and a heavy ground sea, and succeeded in rescuing eleven of the crew of the steamer Milan, of Hull, bound from Alexandria for...
Rescue from a Trawler About to Sink
AT 5.30 on the morning of the 15th of January, 1953, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of the Thurso life- boat station that the steam trawler Sunlight was reported ashore on Holborn Head and in need of immed- iate...
Category: Services
A Coasting Steamer
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—7th January, 1938. A coasting steamer had gone ashore on the Little Sunk Sands, but was towed clear by a tug.—Rewards, £13 25. 6d..
A Small Rowing Boat
OCTOBER 17TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. At eight at night the coastguard reported that a man who had gone out fishing in a small rowing boat at one o’clock had not returned. There was thick fog. A light westerly wind was blowing and the sea...