LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Converted Ship's Boat
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.10 on the morning of the 14th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a converted ship's boat had been aground all night alongside Barrow Deep lightvessel. Her crew had no petrol for...
The Life-Boat the Best of Boats
" A dirty night, lads, bear a hand, It's blowing dead upon the land.
A ship 's ashore—just off the bar; She's all but gone—lost every spar.
Be lively, lads, and launch the craft; Stand by,...
Category: Poetry
Kinnaird Head and Araby
DECEMBER 27TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 3 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a ship was sinking near the boom defence, and at 3.25 P.M. the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3) was launched. A light...
A Pleasure Boat
On the 8th May, at about half-past five o'clock in the afternoon, the lightkeeper at Scurdyness telephoned that a boat was in danger on the Annat Bank.
The Life-boat Robert Henderson was launched and on nearing the boat...
Naming Ceremonies: Amble Dunmore East and Walmer
TWIN NAMING CEREMONIES at Opposite ends of England took place at 3 o'clock on Saturday, September 6, 1975. At the same time as, in Northumberland, the new Amble lifeboat was being named Harold Salvesen by Mrs H. K. Salvesen, widow of the...
Category: Inaugurations
The S.S. Esbo (2)
Barrow, Lancashire ; Maryport, Cumberland; Ramsey, and Douglas, Isle of Man, October 19th.—On the 18th October the s.s. Esbo, of Helsingfors, left Preston in ballast for Finland. Bad weather was encountered, and the Esbo got into...
Dinghies
Near gale in Chichester Harbour A CAPSIZED SAILING DINGHY with children and an adult in the water, sighted at the entrance to Emsworth Channel some five miles from Hayling Island ILB station, was reported to the honorary secretary by HM...
The S.S. Clan Malcolm
The s.s. Clan Malcolm, of Glasgow, bound from London to the Clyde, ran ashore near the Lizard in a dense fog on the 26th September. She was carrying a crew of seventy-five. A moderate to fresh S.S.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea....
Contents
Lifeboat Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume L Number 504 Chairman; THE DUKE 01 ATIIOI.[.
Director and Sccrctan: 1.1 ( I R BRIAN MILES Rl) MNI RNR Editor: NORMAN HICKS Hi'iitli/uarti'r.'i: Royal...
Category: Contents
Skegness All-Weather Lifeboat and Crew
Skegness all-weather lifeboat and crew. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs