LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Emergency Towing Vessel English
The emergency towing vessel Englishman In Bressay Sound during a routine patrol Photo-. Nicholas Leach/Ships Monthly. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Above: the Wide Aisle, With Engines to the Right and Prop Shafts to the Left
Above: The wide aisle, with engines to the right and prop shafts to the left. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Elise
PLYMOUTH.—At about 3 A.M. on the 2nd September, during a strong gale from the S. and a heavy sea, the Norwegian barque EKs« entered Plymouth Sound for shelter, and let go both her anchors. One chain parted immediately, and the vessel...
Additional Life-Boat Stations and New Life-Boats
FRASERURGH, SCOTLAND. A life-boat station has been established at Frazerburgh by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, in conjunction with the Harbour Commissioners of that port. The life-boat is on the Institution's plan, designed by Mr....
Category: Articles
Eastney's Two Ilbs on Exercise: Atlantic 21 Guide Friendship II (l) Crewed By (I to R) Helmsman William Hawkins Dennis Faro and Kenneth George With Operational Swim
Eastney's two ILBs on exercise: Atlantic 21 Guide Friendship II (/.) crewed by (I. to r.) Helmsman William Hawkins, Dennis Faro and Kenneth George with Operational Swimmer Colin Beeston, and D Class ILB crewed by Stephen Alexander and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
L/Cpl. Rambahadur Limbu, Who Received the V.C. from the Queen on 12th July, 1966, for Bravery In Sarawak, Was a Visitor to the Eastbourne Life-Boat Station In June
L/Cpl. Rambahadur Limbu, Who Received the V.C. from the Queen on 12th July, 1966, for Bravery In Sarawak, Was a Visitor to the Eastbourne Life-Boat Station In June. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Books
• Wooden Boats and Men of Steel tells the story of Withernsea lifeboats from 1862 to 1913 when the station was closed and the lifeboat transferred to Easington. Paul Baker is very much involved with the present day Withernsea lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Sir Winston Churchill
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL illuminated so many aspects of our life with the majesty of his words that it is hardly surprising that some of the most stirring sentences ever spoken about a life-boat were uttered by him.
The...
Category: Articles
Guiseppina
GREAT YARMOUTH.—On the 9th April, at 10 P.M., during a strong N.E. wind and heavy sea, a large vessel was observed to be driving towards the beach. The Abraham Thomas Life-boat proceeded out to her, and found she was the barque Guiseppina N....
Hiskilina
At daybreak on the 16th December a schooner was observed in distress be- tween one and two miles off Stonehaven Bay. The weather for three days had been very stormy, with high seas running, and it was feared that she would become a total...