LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Danish Liquified Gas Carrier Regitze Tholstrup
Donaghadee lifeboat, the 44ft Waveney Arthur and Blanche Harris, set out at 0929 on Monday January 21 to go to the help of the Danish liquified gas carrier Regitze Tholstrup aground north of Larne Harbour in an easterly gale and very rough...
Feature the Royal Charter Tragedy
The first Gold Medal to be awarded after the establishment of the Lifeboat journal was not to a lifeboatman but was for an outstanding act of individual bravery following the wreck of the Royal Charter near Moelfre, in Anglesey, on 26...
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The Schoonr Lydney Trader, of Barnstable
On the 13th February the Appledore Life-boat, Hope, saved the crew of 3 men from the wreck of the schooner Lydney Trader, of Barnstaple. That vesselhad sailed last from Caldy Island, and had tried to get into Barnstaple Har- bour, but failed...
Hrh the Duchess of Kent Pictured With Coxswain Steve Shaw Aboard Roy Barker I
HRH The Duchess of Kent pictured with coxswain Steve Shaw aboard Roy Barker I after the naming ceremony. - View image in PDF
Photo Brian Green. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Panamanian Motor Vessel Pacific Trader
Walmer, Kent - At 3.45 p.m. on 2yth December, 1966, a large steamer was thought to be aground near the B.I.
buoy on the Brake Sands. Visibility was poor and the vessel was just visible. The life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil...
The S.S. Fosdyke Trader, of London
DECEMBER 29TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 11.40 at night the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore at the North Cheek of Robin Hood’s Bay, six miles south of Whitby. A light southerly wind was blowing, and the sea was...
Southend Mayor Ken Cater at the Helm
Southend Mayor Ken Cater at The Helm. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Christmas Cards and Calendar
THE Institution is having for sale this year two Christmas Cards, one in colours, the other in black and white, and a pocket calendar.
The card in colour will have a reproduction of a painting by the late Mr. L. Wyllie, R.A...
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Life-Boat Christmas Cards and Calendars
This year one of the life-boat cards has been designed by an 11 - year old girl, Philippa Mary Dudgeon, of Woking, Surrey, the overall winner of a life-boat Christmas card design competition organised by the children's magazine Look and...
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New Quay: HANDLES WITH CARE
Two volunteers from New Quay lifeboat station travelled 313 miles to Penlee in Cornwall on 7 November – to present a set of old cast-iron door handles. Mechanic Bernie Davies explains: ‘On reading on Facebook that someone had stolen the old...
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