LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Commander T. Holmes R.N. Late Chief Inspector of Life-Boats
Commander T Holmes RN Late Chief Inspector of Life-Boats. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Steamship Boeton
At 12.45 A.M.
on the 16th January, during an ex- ceedingly thick fog, signals of distress were heard, and a message was received stating that a vessel was ashore to the north of the town. The Honorary Secretary of the...
Clarinda
On the morning of the 23rd March the coxswain was told that the small local motor fishing boat Clarinda, with four men on board, had not returned with the rest of the fleet from the Ballantrae Banks. A moderate S.E. gale was blowing, with a...
A Bronze Medal Service By the Stromness Motor Life-Boat
ON the 1st January the Motor Life-boat at Stromness, in the Orkneys, performed a fine service which illustrates very clearly the value of motor-power. At 9.15 A.M. the news was received at Stromness from Birsay that a vessel was in distress...
Category: Medals
Transport Equipment (Thorneycroft) Ltd
41 foot G.R.P. experimental Life-boat powered by Thornycroft T400 Diesels.
ft Transport Equipment (Thornycroft) Limited, Marine Engine Division, Basingstoke, Hants. Tel: Basingstoke 3221..
Category: Advertisement
A Good Example
THE following interesting communication has been transmitted to the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, and is a gratifying evidence of the social kindness of heart that is so frequently found among our British workmen: — " Orwell Works,...
Category: Correspondence
Fraserburgh
FRASERBURGH, Saturday October 18, 1986: this photograph, taken by Motor Mechanic Thomas Summers aboard the 47ft Tyne class lifeboat, City of Edinburgh, gives little impression of the 10ft swell, rough seas and gale force southerly wind which... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dignity at West Mersea
Dignity at West Mersea The official opening and dedication of West Mersea's new lifeboat house took place at the same time as the naming ceremony.
Dignity is named after Dignity Caring Funeral Services, whose employees... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Five Lives Rescued In the Floods. Unusual Service By the Whitby Life-Boat
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 106 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 77 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 30th, 1931 62,735 Five Lives Rescued in the Floods.
Unusual...
Category: Services
Anmara
Long Search THE STERN TRAWLER Anmara and her crew of three were reported overdue from Scarborough on the evening of May 21, 1987 and a search was organised by Humber Coastguard, to begin at first light on the following day.