LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Motor Fishing Vessels Breadwinner, Orient and Dolly Graham (1)
Eyemouth, and St. Abbs, Berwickshire.— At 10.7 in the morning, on the 24th of April, 1950, the Eyemouth life-boat authorities received a message from a Burnmouth fisherman that the motor fishing vessel Breadwinner, of Burn- mouth, was in...
St. Patrick
JUNE 13TH. - FISHGUARD AND ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE At 4.40 in the morning a message was received at Fishguard from the coastguard that a vessel was on fire seven miles west of Strumble Head, and at 5.25 the motor life-boat White Star was...
Fishing Cobles (2)
NEWBIGQIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.—On the 12th May towards the middle of the day the N.N.E. wind freshened and the sea became dangerously rough.
Several of the fishing cobles were at sea, and as four were known to be some miles...
Nayland and Marvonne
Margate, Kent - On 9th July, 1969, the life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched to the help of the pilot boat Nayland towing the motor fishing vessel Marvonne. A full account of this service, for which special awards were...
The Assembled Lifeboats Steam In Line Astern Up the Oslofjord Framed By the Rigging of Christian Radich Carrying Conference Delegates
The assembled lifeboats steam in line astern up the Oslofjord, framed by the rigging of Christian Radich carrying conference delegates.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Medical Mock-Up:
Medical mock-up: the rescue services' ability to deal with large numbers of survivors, many suffering the effects of burns, chemical contamination, compound fractures and other injuries was put to the test in a complex exercise off the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Appledore Station. Recollections of Sir William Reardon Smith, Bt
Recollections of Sir William Reardon Smith, Bt.Recollections of Sir William Reardon Smith, Bt.
IN the last number of The Lifeboat a history was published of the Appledore Station, which was established in 1825, of its...
Category: Articles
Awards to Life-Boat Workers
MR. J. W. EAGLE, J.P., of Walton and Frinton, MR. P. BRUCE LAURENSON, L.D.S.(Edin.), of Lerwick, and LADY ROWALLAN, of Kilmarnock, have all been accorded the highest distinction which the Royal National Life-boat Institution can confer on an...
Category: Awards
Latvian Award to Portaskaig
ON the night of 26th October, 1936, the Latvian steamer Helena Faulbaums, of Riga, was caught in a sudden very severe storm near Jura Sound on the west coast of Scotland. The weather was very thick, with rain showers, and the sea was very...
Category: Awards
Jenny
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 8.12 on the evening of the 22nd of April, 1957, the life-boat coxswain was told that a fishing vessel appeared to be in diffi- culties three miles north-west of Hilbre Island. He went to the boathouse and through a...