LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Instead of Flowers
CAPTAIN S. E. FOSTER, R.N., who for several years was honorary secretary of the Ryde, Isle of Wight, station, died last August. Knowing his interest in the life-boat service his family, in the announcement of his death, asked that gifts...
Category: Donations
The President of Iceland Mrs Vigdis Finnbogadottir With Coxswain/Mechanic Maurice Hutchens of Sennen Cove (C)
The President of Iceland, Mrs Vigdis Finnbogadottir, with Coxswain/Mechanic Maurice Hutchens of Sennen Cove (c) and Gunnar Thorsteinsson, captain of the Icelandic coaster Tungufoss. For the rescue of 11 men from Tungufoss last September, Mrs... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Your shout
Dear Editor
I read the Winter 2008–9 account of the opening of Dart station with interest but some confusion.
The appeal was for £259,000 but a D class lifeboat costs £...
Category: Articles
Eastern Princess
RECORD NUMBER LANDED Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
At 10.2 on Tuesday the 2nd of July, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the pleasure boat Eastern Princess, of Yarmouth, had run aground in...
A Ship’s Boat (5)
DECEMBER 25TH. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.
At 11.50 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a boat could be seen drifting about 3 miles N.E. of the coastguard station. A moderate easterly wind was blowing, with a...
The Motor Fishing Vessels Provider, Pilot Me, and Gem, of Whitby
NOVEMBER 20TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
About 11.30 in the morning the Whitby coastguard passed on a message from the Kettleness coastguard that three motor fishing vessels, two miles north east of...
Ruffian (1)
Swim to yacht A YACHT AGROUND on rocks in the vicinity of Beckermet, about six miles south of St Bees, was reported to the honorary secretary of St Bees lifeboat station by Liverpool Coastguard at 0400 on Sunday August 29, 1982. It was an...
In the Boathouse
In the boathouse . . .
Inspection: (left) At Hoylake George Cooper, taking a close look at all parts of the boat, comei to the propellers; as on every well cared for lifeboat, the blades are polished shining bright, fore as... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Libra
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 12.5 on the afternoon of the 15th of June, 1953, during thick fog, the coastguard rang up to say that a vessel had run ashore two hundred yards south of North Cheek in Robin Hood's Bay. At 12.20 the No. 1...
Swanage Dorset: (Left) Launch of J Reginald Corah After Her Naming the Duke of Kent Then Embarked to Make a Round of Swanage Bay Photograph By Courtesy of a G
Swanage, Dorset: (left) Launch of J. Reginald Corah after her naming. The Duke of Kent then embarked to make a round of Swanage Bay. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of A. G. L. Hardy.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs