LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Soldian Closes In (Bottom) Her Owner a Crewman from the Towing Vessel
(Bottom) Her owner, a crewman from the towing vessel and a helicopter winchman put aboard for the attempt are snatched to safety by the lifeboat crew.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Coble
MCH. 16TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. A coble had made a signal for help, but she was taken in tow by another coble. - Rewards, £3 6s..
Vigilant, of Hayle
On the same day the schooner Vigilant, of Hayle, was seen in distress during bad weather, and in a heavy sea, on the western spit of Hayle Bar. The Oxford University life-boat Isis stationed at that port was launched, and succeeded in...
Contents
Notes of the Quarter 183 Contents Lifeboat Services 185 Annaal General Meeting and Presentation of Awards 192 N limber 476 The naming of the 52ft Arun relief lifeboat Sir Max Aitken 197 Back in Business—Hunstanton, closed 1931: re-opened...
Category: Contents
Try On
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 11 A.M. on the 4th December, 1937, the coxswain saw a fishing smack approaching the Newcombe Sands and rolling about in a heavy ground swell. Drifting with the N.E. wind and flood tide, she struck heavily, her anchor...
The Duke of Atholl Former Convener of the Scottish Lifeboat Council With Mrs E P Hill Former Secretary of Gourock Ladies' Guild Mrs Hill Awarded a Gold Badge Had Bee
The Duke of Atholl, former convener of the Scottish Lifeboat Council, with Mrs E. P.
Hill, former secretary of Gourock ladies' guild. Mrs Hill, awarded a gold badge, had been unable to attend the AGM in London in May to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Mr.
Harry Finch, who has been a member of the life-boat crew at Walton and Frinton, Essex, since May, 1907, except for the years 1914 to 1918, when he was on war service. He has taken part...
Category: Articles
(Left) Lifeboatmen Wearing Bulky Cork Lifejackets, As Depicted In a Nineteenth Century Oil Painting
Left) Lifeboatmen Wearing Bulky Cork Lifejackets, As Depicted In A Nineteenth Century Oil Painting.
Category: Drawings
Bittern
During a heavy gale from S.W.
on the 22nd April the yacht Bittern, of Berwick, was observed being rapidly driven seawards. The gale was increas- ing in violence, and it was considered necessary to launch the Life-boat to...
Sultan
FISHING VESSEL SAVED Rhyl, Flintshire. At 11.20 a.m. on i6th April, 1965, the coxswain observed two flares fired from the motor fishing vessel Sultan in a position two miles east by north of Rhyl. He immediately informed the coastguard and...