LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fishing Boat (1)
TOW FOR FISHING BOAT WITH BROKEN SHAFT Thurso, Caithness-shire. At 5.30 on the afternoon of the 24th April, 1962, the keeper of the Dunnet Head lighthouse informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat with a broken propeller shaft was...
Chuff Chuff
Margate, Kent. The honorary secretary was notified by the coastguard at ii.12 p.m. on 8th June, 1965, that flares had been observed about one mile off Margate pier. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. ir) was launched at 11.31 on...
A Book on the Life-Boats In the War
The story of the Life-boat Service in the war of 1939 to 1945 is told in "Storm on the Waters" by Mr. Charles Vinc«, publicity secretary of the Institution.
It will be published on December i6th by Messrs....
Category: Articles
Medals for Gallantry
SILVER and bronze medals for gallantry have been awarded at the Humber, Whitby, Yarmouth (Isle of Wight), Clacton-on-Sea, Blackpool, Lytham St.
Annes, Dover, Broughty Ferry, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Salcombe, Torbay,...
Category: Medals
(Below) Whitby Pulling Lifeboat
(below) Whitby pulling lifeboat Robert and Ellen Robson putting out to the help of a fishing boat. Robert and Ellen Robson remained on service at Whitby until 1957, and she is still housed in her old boathouse, which is now a museum. She is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The West and East German Lifeboat Organisations
The West and East German lifeboat organisations have now combined to form a single lifeboat service. This is the former West German 'daughter boat' Onkel W/ffi being recovered aboard the parent vessel during a demonstration at the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sailing Dinghy (2)
Selsey, Sussex - At 6.12 p.m. on 29th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht three-quarters of a mile west of Bognor pier was signalling for help. The life-boat Canadian Pacific launched at 6.24 in a...
Cheryl II
St. Helier, Jersey - at 10.20 p.m. on nth August, 1967, the honorary secretary was informed that a fishing boat, with one man on board, was overdue. The lifeboat Elizabeth Rippon slipped her moorings at 10.45 in a strong west south westerly...
Philorth
The steam trawler Philorth, of Dundee, left Dundee Harbour at 1.30 A.M. on the 18th March, bound for the fishing grounds, and at 3.45 she was seen from Arbroath Harbour to run on to the rocks about one mile to the eastward, and make signals...
Oljaren
Longhope, Orkneys.—At 12.38 on the morning of the 12th of April, 1951, the motor tanker Oljaren, of Gothenburg, bound for Stockholm from Curacoa with diesel oil, wirelessed that she had gone aground on Muckle Skerry in the Pentland Firth. At...