LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
My Beauty, Autumn Rose and Lewis James
Cromer, Norfolk-At 8.15 a.m. on 5th August, 1966, owing to the deteriorating sea conditions, concern was felt for the safety of three crab boats still at sea. The No. 2 life-boat William Henry and Mary King was launched at 8.30 in a moderate...
Humber- North Division
Humber's Arun class lifeboat lies afloat off the tip of Spurn Point, the most southerly fragment of Yorkshire, where the Number joins the turbulent North Sea.
It is the only station with a full-time crew - the members... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Periodical Exercise of Lifeboats' Crews
As it is considered that the periodical exercise of the crews of life-boats is very essential, it is hoped that the several Local Committees in connexion with the National Shipwreck Institution, will pay particular attention to that part of...
Category: Articles
A Motor Boat
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—During the morning of the 16th October, 1938, nine Sea Scouts, from a Borstal Institution, with a scoutmaster, left Hunstanton in their motor boat for Boston. Soon afterwards the boat's engine broke down and the...
Sisters
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—On the afternoon of the 24th October, the Sisters fishing vessel, of Gorleston, was making for the harbour on the ebb tide, the wind at the time blowing a very heavy gale from the S.S.W., right out of the...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Its Object and Work
(Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.) ITS OBJECT AND WORK.
The work of the Institution mainly consists of— 1. Building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways,...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Travaylor
TORBAY, PLYMOUTH, AND SALCOMBE, DEVON.—The s.s. Trevaylor, of St. Ives, lost her propeller when off the Eddy- stone on 6th January, in a whole S.S.W.
gale, with a very heavy sea. She sent out an urgent call for help. It was...
Trustful and a Dinghy
ENGINE FAILURE T At 4.53 p.m. on igth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two people were trying to row ashore from a motor fishing vessel anchored five miles south-south-east of Hastings. The honorary secretary...
Branching Out
Thousands of hard working branches and guilds not only celebrated the anniversary on the day but also used the opportunity to raise some cash.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Flirt
Margate, Kent.—At 1.6 early on the morning of the 20th of July, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was overdue. At 1.18 the life- boat North Foreland (Civil Service No.
IT) was launched in a heavy sea, with...