LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Past and Present
100 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, May 1889 issue THE LIFE-BOAT HOUSE The boats of the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under...
Category: Articles
Ocean Pride
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. — At 7.33 on the evening of the 15th of May, 1951, the coastguard reported a fishing boat burning flares off Caernarvon Bar.
At 8.0 the life-boat Charles Henry Ashley was launched. There was...
Pearl
EXHAUSTED BY ROWING Whitehills, Banffshire. At 1.55 a.m.
on 3rd August, 1965, the police reported that a flare had been seen off Banff. The life-boat Helen Wycherley launched at 2.15 in a moderate north-easterly breeze and...
A Fishing Boat (2)
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 22nd of December, 1954, a message was received from Passage East that a small fishing boat was in distress between Duncannon and Broom Head.
At 12.38 the...
A Motor Boat
Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 8.12 on the evening of the 6th October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a sixteen-feet outboard motor boat with an amateur frogman on board was overdue. The frogman had left Port Bradden...
Atlantic Coast
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 8.15 on the evening of the 7th July, 1961, the Chief Constable of Yar- mouth asked for the life-boat to meet a ship in the Yarmouth roads and collect a body which had been picked up about five...
Two Sisters
Workington, Cumberland. At 2.13 on the morning of the 6th of November, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen one mile north-east of Mary- port. At 2.45 the life-boat Edward...
Miss M E Keen
Miss M E Keen MBE, Founder Chairman of the Ross-on-Wye branch. She was Chairman from 1970 and was appointed President in 1980. She was awarded the Silver badge in 1986.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Flora, of Poole
The small surf Life-boat on this station, the Duff, went off on the 16th January, 1871, to the brig Flora, of Poole, which had parted her anchors and gone on the beach during a strong gale from the South. Proceeding through a heavy surf to...
Royal Albert
WEST HARTLEPOOL. — The Life-boat Rochdale proceeded to the assistance of the schooner Royal Albert, of Maldon, which was in imminent danger during a hurricane from the E.N.E. on the 28th October. The vessel's crew of five men were taken...