LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summer Draw
Whitby ladies' lifeboat guild have reached their year end having raised £14,000. A major fund raiser was the summer draw, the first prize a painting donatedby Whitby artist Mr John Freeman, who is shown below with members of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
David Steenvoorden Has Been a Full-Time Crew Member of Humber Lifeboat
David Steenvoorden has been a full-time crew member of Humber lifeboat since 1990.
Dave joined the inshore lifeboat crew at Cleethorpes in 1987, and in 1990 was awarded a Bronze Medal in recognition of his courage,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
He Can Bearly Wait - Berwicks Bear,
He can bear~ly wait - Berwicks Bear, AKA crew member Alistair Laing, waits excitedly for the opening of the Berwickupon- Tweed fete on 11 August. Over 2,000people attended the event, which included a stunning search and rescue display, and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life's a Beach!
Brett Shepherd, the RNLI's Divisional Lifeguard Manager. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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SEPT. 6TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. An explosion had been reported in the neighbourhood of the Corton Light-vessel, but the life-boat found that the light-vessel itself was all right, and there was no sign of any ship in...
Donalda
APRIL 18TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At 1.45 in the morning it was reported that a vessel of an outward-bound convoy had gone ashore on the Binks. She appeared to be on her beam ends and was sounding distress signals on her...
A Trawler (4)
MAY 6TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK.
The military look-out had reported a trawler sounding her fog siren, but the life-boat was recalled when a message came from the Ballycotton Lighthouse that, after signalling “ mines...
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OCTOBER 17TH. - GALWAY BAY. At 4.15 P.M. the motor life-boat City of Bradford No. I, on temporary duty at the station, was launched to take a priest and doctor to a sick woman on Inisherr Island. Half a gale was blowing from the S.W. and the...
An Aeroplane (7)
JANUARY 7TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At the request of the naval authorities the life-boat went to a spot where a Coastal Command aeroplane was reported to be circling over either an aeroplane or bodies in the sea, but she...