LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Herring Boats
On the morning of the 30th June a strong N.E. gale sprang up causing a very heavy sea whilst the herring fleet were returning from the fishing grounds.
Owing to the heavy swell and surf at the Harbour entrances it was...
A Motor Boat
St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At eight o'clock on the evening of the 20th of August, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the motor boat from Ramsey Island bound for St. Justinian had broken down and was drifting past St. David'...
Mr. Sholto F. Middleton, Honorary Secretary of the Seaford Branch
BY the death of Mr. Sholto F. Middleton, in October of last year, the Institution has lost one of its most successful and devoted Honorary Secretaries. Mr.
Middleton founded the Branch at Seaford, Sussex, in 1917, and...
Category: Obituaries
Tony Vandervell the First Glass Fibre Arun Represented the Rnli Lifeboat Fleet at Helsinki She Will Be Stationed at Weymouth and Is Already at Home In Portland Race Phot
Tony Vandervell, the first glass fibre Arun, represented the RNLI lifeboat fleet at Helsinki. She will be stationed at Weymouth and is already at home in Portland Race.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Paul
This service to the Hamburg was quickly followed by a service to another German sailing ship, also of Hamburg, the four-masted pole-rigged ship Paul, This service took place the following day Jon the Welsh coast. The ship, which was on her...
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Longhope, Orkney*. — On the afternoon of the 29th March a doctor asked for the life-boat to take a woman patient, who was suffering from appendicitis, to Scapa for an immediate operation. A strong S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea and...
A Life-Boat Rescue In the Old Days
Plaster panels recently modelled for the Ship Hotel, at Cromer, The photographs are reproduced by kind permission of the Morgan Brewery Company. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bridlington Lifeboat William Henry
Bridlington lifeboat William Henry and Mary King one of three lifeboats searching for the missing stern trawler Anmara.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Celebration Challenge
London's Lakeside shopping centre was the setting for a unique anniversary fundraising event in August.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Csma Chairman John Harrington
CSMA Chairman John Harrington (right) presents cheque for over £66.000 to David Ttdman. RNLI transport manager. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs