LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lukin's Grave at Hythe In Kent
Lukin's grave at Hythe in Kent.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Viola
On the 31st October the steam drifter Viola, of Banff, ran ashore on Scroby Sands when returning to Yarmouth from the fishing grounds.
An increasing N.N.E. wind was blow- ing and the sea was heavy on the sands.
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Hiram
GORLESTON.—On the 15th November at 2 A.M., while a fresh and increasing breeze was blowing from the N.N.E., with a rough sea and foggy weather, flares were seen in the direction of the North Sand.
The crew of the Gorleston...
Dalhanna and Staxton Wyke
Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 3.30 on the morning of the 23rd of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was sinking sixteen miles south-east of Flamborough Head. At four o'clock the life-boat Friendly...
Penton
On the evening of the 20th April the coxswain received a message from the pier head that flares were burning in the Swatch- way, and the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3) put out at 10.52 P.M. A moderate S.W. wind was...
In Memory of Grace Darling (1)
Planting an oalc tree in Battersea Park, London. (See opposite page.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wolfsburg
Torbay, Devon.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 21st of September, 1953, the local Lloyds agent rang up to say that the motor vessel Wolfsburg, of Hamburg, had an injured man on board and would arrive at Torbay at eleven...
The Inaugural Ceremony at Thurso. A 45 Feet 6 Inches Watson Cabin Type
The Inaugural Ceremony at Thurso A 45 Feet 6 Inches Watson Cabin Type. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cromer
CROMER, NORFOLK On the 6th August, 1941, the Cromer life-boats rescued sixteen of the crew of the S.S. Oxshott, thirty-one of the crew of the S.S. Gallois, nineteen of the crew of the S.S. Deerwood, twenty-two of the crew of the S.S. Paddy...
Category: Medals
Profile...
• COMMANDER Frederick R. H. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R., of Stratford Mill, Stratford- Sub-Castle, Salisbury, who may soon retire as deputy chairman of the R.N.L.I., was born in 1904. His interest in sailing goes back to the age of four, for his...
Category: Committee