LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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...
Life-Boat Services
THE accompanying illustration of one of the life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION proceeding off to a wreck, is from an exquisite picture painted by Mr. SAMUEL WALTERS, an eminent marine artist of Bootle, near Liverpool. He was...
Category: Services
Four Double Rescues
IT does not often happen that the same Life-boat goes out to the help of the same j vessel twice over within, a short time, but this has happened recently in the case of four vessels.
On 29th December of last year the,...
Category: Services
Cadets Pull It Off!
Edinburgh Beatty Sea Cadet Unit have for many years been energetic fund raisers on behalf of the RNLI in Scotland.
Last year they undertook a sponsored boat pull in their ASC class dinghy along the full 22 miles of Loch... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
White Heather
Redcar, Yorkshire. At 5.40 on the evening of the 15th of October, 1957, the Saltburn coastguard telephoned that the salvage vessel White Heather needed help near the old wreck of the Demetrius off Redcar. At 6.10 the fife-boat City of Leeds...
The R.N.L.I. Inshore Rescue Boat at St. Donat's With Other Inflatable Craft
The RNLI Inshore Rescue Boat at St Donat's With Other Inflatable Craft. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Torbay: on September 22 1983
Torbay: On September 22, 1983, a young man fell 60ft into the sea when rocks crumbled beneath his feet on cliffs at Babbacombe. Two friends pulled the injured man from the sea, raised the alarm and then returned with blankets. Torbay's... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ocean Harvest
Petertead, Aberdeenshire. — At 2.25 P.M. on the 13th July, 1939, a message was received from the Rattray Head coastguard, through the Peterhead coastguard, stating that a steam drifter was ashore at Rattray Head.
A light...
A Boat
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 10.50 on the night of the 30th of July, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that shouts for help could be heard from the wreck-marker buoy in Ox- wich Bay. At 11.5 the life-boat William Gammon—Manchester and...
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
LIST OF OFFICERS.
PRESIDENT— Capt. H.R.H. The DUKE or YORK, K.N., K.G.
PRESIDENT OF THE LADIES' AUXILIARIES--H.R.H. The DUCHESS OF YORK.
CENTRAL COMMITTEE— Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK,...
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