LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-bouses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
Cormorant
Runswick, Yorkshire.—About 8.30 on the evening of the 29th of August1954, a yacht off Staithes was seen to be in difficulties, and it was noticed that her crew of three had lowered her sails. Her engine did not appear to be very powerful,...
Mrs J B Ritchie President of Ramsey Branch and Ladies' Guild and Donor of Ramsey's 37Ft Oakley Lifeboat James Ball Ritchie and Port St.Mary's 54Ft Arun the Gough Ritchie Was Awarded Hon
Mrs J. B. Ritchie, president of Ramsey branch and ladies' guild and donor of Ramsey's 37ft Oakley lifeboat James Ball Ritchie and Port St Mary's 54ft Arun The Gough Ritchie, was awarded honorary life governorship of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Photograph Taken In March 1969 As a Boat Crosses the Bar at Aberdeen Harbour During the Same Period of Bad Weather Which Caused the Loss of the Longhope Life-Boat
A photograph taken in March, 1969, as a boat crosses the bar at Aberdeen harbour during the same period of bad weather which caused the loss of the Longhope life-boat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Chairman of the Management Committee, Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., Pictured With Life-Boat Officials and Members of the Crew at Blackpool on 26th February, 1967
The Chairman of the Management Committee, Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham- Quin, R.N., pictured with life-boat officials and members of the crew at Blackpool on 26th February, 1967.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Splash
The chief of operations has written to the Commissioners of Irish Lights thanking the keeper and crew of the Kish Bank lighthouse for their assistance during a five-hour search for a yacht in difficulties. Without their help it might have...
Kings Star
Stromness, Orkneys - At n.i a.m.
on 28th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Norwegian motor vessel Kings Star of Allesumd was ashore on the north shoal.
The life-boat...
Awards to Honorary Workers
To the Rev. K. H. MACDERMOTT, upon his ( retirement after 10 years as Honorary Secretary of the Selsey Branch, the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum.
To the Rev. R. J. HODGES, upon his retirement after...
Category: Awards
The S.S. Wexfordian
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—On the afternoon of the 8th March it was learned that the s.s. Wexfordian, of Wexford, which had been aground on South Dogger Bank since the 29th February, was in need of help. A strong N.E. by E. breeze was...
Magnet
WITHOUT SLEEP FOR SEVENTY HOURS Ramtgate, and Walmer, Kent.—At 5.56 in th« evening of the 26th of No- vember, 1947, the coastguard tele- phoned that information had been received from Margate that a barge with her topmast...