LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Warwick
Newhaven, Sussex. At 3.25 on the morning of the 7th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the s.s. Pompey Light of Portsmouth that she was standing by the cabin cruiser Warwick,...
Lord Waldegrave
BY the death on 13th August, at the age of 79, of the Right Hon. the Earl Waldegrave, P.O., a Vice-President of the Institution and the Chairman of its Committee of Management for twelve years, the Life-boat Service lost a generous friend...
Category: Obituaries
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ST. DAVID'S, PEMBKOKESHIBK.—At about midnight on the 27th May, rockets were fired from the South Bishops Lighthouse.
The crew of the Augusta Life-boat were summoned; the boat was launched, and on reaching the lighthouse...
Model Effort:
Model effort: this half size replica of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston 44ft Waveney lifeboat Barham took eight months and several hundred man hours to complete and will be used to raise funds for the RNLI by being rented out to fetes and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Captain Gordon Butterworth (I) Chief Marine Superintendent Royal Fleet Auxiliary Presented a £14000
Captain Gordon Butterworth (I), Chief Marine Superintendent, Royal Fleet Auxiliary, presented a £14,000 cheque to Rear Admiral W. J. Graham, director of the Institution, on board RFA Sir Lamorak at Marchwood, Southampton, on April... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Laertes
Humber, Yorkshire. At 7.35 on the evening of the 25th of August, 1959, a sailing yacht which had just left Spurn was seen to be in difficulties and drifting towards the Admiralty boom. The life-boat City of Bradford III, which was at...
Hoity Toity
At 3.52 P.M. on 17th December a request was received from the Calshot Air Station that the Motor Life-boat B.A.S.P. should be sent to the aid of the speed boat Hoity Toity, which had been seen, by a flying boat, to be in distress_spme...
Ephrussi (1)
HARWICH AND ALDEBURGH.—Signals having been made by the light-vessels, the Springwell Life-boat stationed at Harwich and the Aldeburgh Life-boat at Aldeburgh were launched at 8 A.M. on the 5th June, and proceeded to the Shipwash Sands where...
Fishing Boats (2)
AHBROATH.—Shortly before 1 P.M. on the 23rd January the People's Journal No. 2 Life-boat was launched, during a strong gale of wind from the S.S.E., accompanied by hail and rain, with a high sea on the bar, to the assistance of a number...
Grazia
NOV. 19TH. - MARGATE, KENT. The coastguard had reported a vessel sinking by enemy action about seven miles north-east of Margate. A strong north-west wind was blowing with a rough sea. The life-boat arrived at the position given but found...