LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
And Another £227—With 75P Extra—Was Collected By Mr Swift of the Blue Posts Newman Street London Wl He Raised This Magnificent Sum Since July 1972 By Using
And another £227—with 75p extra—was collected by Mr Swift of The Blue Posts, Newman Street, London, Wl. He raised this magnificent sum since July 1972 by using his lifeboat box as a 'swear box' and by holding an annual Christmas... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Fireglow
NOVEMBER 8TH. - CLACTON-ON-SEA (AT BRIGHTLINGSEA), ESSEX During the afternoon the naval base at Brightlingsea reported that two steamers were sinking in the West Swin. A strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat...
A Pilot Boat
At daylight, on the 20th February, a pilot-boat was observed at anchor under Craig Leith Island, with the sea breaking very heavily all round her, and the wind blowing a gale from N.N.W. with severe frost. The North Berwick life-boat was...
Flevo
St. Ives, Cornwall. At 5.32 on the morning of the 8th of February, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Flevo of Groningen had run aground near Laver Point east of St. Ives Bay. The life- boat Edgar,...
Sandhill
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT NEWCASTLE JANUARY 28TH, 30TH and 31ST.- NEWCASTLE, CO. DOWN. At 12.30 in the afternoon of the 28th, the motor life-boat L. P. and St. Helen was launched to the help of the motor vessel Sandhill, of Newcastle- on-Tyne,...
A Dinghy (3)
SAILING DINGHY FOUND AFTER SEARCH Girvan, Ayrshire. At 6.30 on the evening of the 28th April, 1962, a member of the Girvan yacht club informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy with two young men on board was overdue from a...
(Above Left) Exmoiith's Third Lifeboat Victoria a 32Ft Self-Righter Pulling Ten Oars Double-Hanked Was on Station from 1867 to 1884 During Which Time She Rescued 15 P
(Above, left) Exmoiith's third lifeboat, Victoria, a 32ft self-righter pulling ten oars double-hanked, was on station from 1867 to 1884, during which time she rescued 15 people.
In one gale she was hauled on her... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dinghy
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 12th of May, 1956, the life-boat Craziford and Con- stance Conybeare was returning to her moorings after she had been beached for bottom cleaning, when a dinghy was seen to...
Cover Picture
This animated photograph of the Flamborough, Yorkshire, life-boat Friendly Forester going out on exercise was taken by Mr. Arthur W. Dick, honorary secretary, Bridlington, in a westerly gale early in April An Inspector of Life-boats was... - View image in PDF
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Ilmatar
LYDD, DUNGENESS.—At 2 A.M. on the 18th May, the Russian barque Ilmatar got ashore off Dungeness, during a fresh gale at E.N.E., a heavy sea running. The Lifeboats Lifeboats on this part of the coast are mainly dependent on the coastguardmen...