LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Barrels Lightvessel
SICK MAN FROM LIGHTVESSEL LANDED Kilmore, Co. Wexford. At 7.50 on the morning of the 15th March, 1963, the local agent for the Irish Lights office informed the honorary secretary that one of the crew of the Barrels lightvessel was suffering...
Morning Star
TOW FOR TRAWLER Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 1.40 p.m.
on I4th October, 1963, the honorary secretary was told by the crew of a small yacht that a trawler had broken down about five miles east of Tenby. The lifeboat Henry Comber...
Fishing Cobles (1)
Newbiggin, Northumberland.—On the evening of the 31st of May, 1954, some fishing cobles put off to go salmon fishing, but at 9.30 one of them came ashore and reported that the sea was rough and that the weather was worsening. Conditions were...
A Fishing Boat (1)
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 6.20 on the evening of the 30th of Novem- ber, 1954, a man at Northbay tele- phoned that a Northbay fishing boat with a crew of two was long overdue.He asked if the life-boat would search for her. At 7.10 the...
Fishing Cobles
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 7.15 on the morning of the 14th of November, 1956, when the weather was deteriorating, the coastguard rang up and asked for the life-boat to escort eight local fishing cobles to harbour. The life-boat Isa and Penryn...
Royal Aeronautical Society Award
FLIGHT SERGEANT B. BREACH, of No. 228 Squadron R.A.F., has been awarded the Alan Marsh medal for the rescue of the crew of five of the North Carr lightvessel in December 1959. It was after putting out in an attempt to render help to the...
Category: Awards
Five Hundred People Attending Gorleston Lifeboat Hall Gave a Big 'send Off to a Mammoth Fund-Raising Event By- Great Yarmouth and District Round Table No 41 The
Five hundred people attending Gorleston lifeboat hall gave a big 'send off to a mammoth fund-raising event by- Great Yarmouth and District Round Table No. 41.
The Tabler.i aim to raise £10,000 for the Institution... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Eastbourne: a New D Class Ilb Has Been Donated By Downland Eastbourne Round Table and About 250 People Including the Mayor and Member of Parliament Wer
Eastbourne: A new D class ILB has been donated by Downland Eastbourne Round Table and about 250 people, including the Mayor and Member of Parliament, were present at the handing over ceremony on Saturday July I . Dick Barnhoorn fc.j,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Civil Service and Post Office Lifeboat Fund Has Already Donated 38 Lifeboats to the Institution and Has Started to Contribute Towards a 39Th and Miss Connie H Henry Who Has Recently Taken
The Civil Service and Post Office Lifeboat Fund has already donated 38 lifeboats to the Institution and has started to contribute towards a 39th, and Miss Connie H.
Henry, who has recently taken over as honorary secretary... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cover Picture
Whitby's 44ft Waveney lifeboat The White Rose of Yorkshire climbs a 25ft breaking sea in the approaches to Whitby Harbour. Returning from service in a strong north-northwesterly gale on April 8, 1982, she found conditions too dangerous... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs