LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Success
Whitby, Yorkshire.—The local fishing boat Success, which had been out fishing all night, enquired by wireless at nine in the morning of the 20th cf May, 1948, what the condition was at the "harbour mouth. She was told that if she came...
Annual Report. 1892
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL, LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Princes' Hall, Piccadilly, on Saturday, 30th day of April, 1892, Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., V.P., in the Chair, the following Report of the...
Category: Annual Reports
Books
• Tenby's first lifeboat, a 10-oared self-righting vessel, costing £125, was sent to the Welsh port in 1852 by The Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Benevolent Society which, two years later, handed over all its lifeboats to...
Category: Articles
The Motor Fishing Coble Jean and Barbara
OCTOBER 24TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
At 9.15 in the morning, the coastguard reported that the local motor fishing coble Jean and Barbara was at sea and anxiety was felt for her. A south-south-east gale was blowing, increasing...
Letters
Annual General Meeting Thank you for the invitation to yesterday's presentation of awards and annual meeting at the Royal Festival Hall. I found it a most moving occasion.
For years I have lived alongside a famous...
Category: Correspondence
The Mersey Class Marine Engineer (Foreground) and the Aluminium Norwegian Norboat Class Pass the Delegates Aboard the Sailing Ship Christian Radich
The Mersey class Marine Engineer (foreground) and the aluminium Norwegian Norboat class pass the delegates aboard the sailing ship Christian Radich.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Vasilefs Georgios and Kildonan
At 1.30 A.M. on the 10th February, during a moderate S.S.W. gale the Coastguard reported to the Coxswain of the Life-boat John Wesley, that rockets had been observed in Barry Roads.
The Life-boat was launched and found the...
Trevor England Joined Padstow Lifeboat Crew In 1957 He Became Second Coxswain/Assistant Motor Mechanic In 1970 and Was Appointed Coxswain In 1978 In 1977 He Was Awarded the Silver Me
Trevor England joined Padstow lifeboat crew in 1957, he became second coxswain/assistant motor mechanic in 1970 and was appointed coxswain in 1978. In 1977 he was awarded the silver medal and in 1979 a bar to his silver medal.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sheenways
Ramsgate, Kent. At fHe o'clock on the afternoon of tk~ ^Oth of October, 1957, the DPS' coastguard telephoned to SP3' tiie police had reported red flares off Ramsgate harbour. At 5.3 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out...
No Picnic
Amazingly, Poole lifeboats hadn’t been called out for a month, belying our status as one of the busiest coastal stations, but on Sunday 28 October at 10.59am, my pager broke its silence. Spurred into action, I knew that it could be something...
Category: Articles