LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Columbus
An exciting scene took place off Blackpool on the 20th of May, owing to the steamer Columbus taking the ground with three hundred passengers on board. Every effort was at once made to get her out other dangerous position, but without...
Cover Picture
Shoreham Harbour's D class inflatable lifeboat on exercise. Inflatable lifeboats have been stationed at Shoreham for the summer season, from April to October, since 1967. In that time they have launched 450 times anil rescued 233 people.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lamb
NEW BRIGHTON.—On the arrival of the steam ferry boat Thistle from Liverpool on the morning of the 27th January, the master reported that a vessel was ashore on Taylor's Bank. The coxswain of the steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland was...
Foynes
Dover, Kent.-—On the afternoon of the 31st of July, 1949, the life-boat crew stood by, as a large number of boats were afloat in the har- bour and a south-westerly gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. They saw the yacht Foynes in danger...
The S.S. Trsat
SEPTEMBER 7TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 8.57 P.M. the Kinnaird Head coastguard reported that a vessel was being attacked by aeroplanes several miles to the N.E. of the head. She was the S.S. Trsat, of Cardiff (late of Jugoslavia),...
The Gardens of Sheffield Park
FOR many years before the war the famous gardens of Sheffield Park, in Sussex, were opened to the public and the entrance money given to charity.
In 1949, for the first time since the war, they were again opened, for five...
Category: Donations
H.M.S. Witherington (1)
APRIL 29TH. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND, AND SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. At 11.3 at night a message was received at Cullercoats from the Blyth coastguard that a destroyer was in need of help at the entrance to the Tyne. A strong westnorth- west...
Provider (1)
APRIL 27TH - 29TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE ; ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE ; PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE ; AND FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.
While the motor fishing vessel Provider was on passage in ballast from Caernarvon to...
Her Naming Ceremony
Her naming ceremony held by the River Thames, the new relief 52ft lifeboat gave her demonstration run with the Houses of Parliament as her background.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Naming Ceremony at Ilfracombe
THE naming ceremony of a new motor life-boat at Ilfracombe, Devon, took place on 16th June. The life-boat is one of the first two of the new surf type, described on page 167. She has cost £2,750, and has been built out of a legacy from...
Category: Inaugurations