LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Antiques Aid RNLI
Antiques Aid R.N.L.I.
Young supporters of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution staged their first antique auction at Caxton Hall on 10th July, 1972, and raised about £730. So encouraged were the Central London...
Category: Donations
Christian and Charlotte
On the 6th Decem- ber, during a gale from N.N.E., with heavy squalls of rain and hail, the sloop Christian and Charlotte, of Peterhead, was stranded off St. Andrews. The Annie life-boat was promptly manned and launched, and soon succeeded in...
Life-Boat In Water-Colour
A water-colour study of a life-boat launching which won a holiday cruise to Russia and Scandinavia for Barry Ketley, 17 year old Hull schoolboy. He entered the painting in the Daily Mail New Year Schools' Contest and was one of 24...
Category: Drawings
When Grange Infants' School Invited Hartlepool Crew Members Les Pounder and Ron Latcham to Visit Them In July
When Grange Infants' School invited Hartlepool crew members Les Pounder and Ron Latcham to visit them in July it was to present them with a cheque for £712.58. The children had added up this impressive sum for the lifeboats with a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gipsy Queen
On the morning of the 13th February, the local motor fishing boat Gipsy Queen, with two men on board, went out sprat-fishing off Fairlight Glen. Her engine broke down; she began to drift; and the men signalled for help. A moderate...
Cobra, of London
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 8.20 P.M. on the 13th July, 1938, the coastguard reported that a small motor yacht about two miles S.E. of the look-out appeared to be flying an ensign upsidedown, thus making a signal of distress.
A...
Harmony
Exmouth, Devon - At 8.40 p.m. on 2nd August, 1966, a yacht was in distress off Brandy Head near Beer. There was fresh west south westerly breeze with moderate sea. It was high water. The lifeboat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, on temporary duty...
A Dinghy (5)
At 5.14 p.m. on 20th July, 1967, a message was received that a dinghy which appeared to have broken down was under observation about three miles off shore.
On the receipt of further information at 5.33 it was decided to...
The Sailing Barge Veravia
FEBRUARY 17TH. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. At 1.40 A.M. a barge was reported by the coastguard to be in distress off Seaford and burning red flares. A very strong southerly wind was blowing, with heavy seas, fog and blizzards of snow. At 2.25 A.M....
Annual Service Awards
The James Michael Bower Endowment Fund was established in 1955 by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company as a memorial to James Michael Bower, late third officer of the s.s. Stratheden, who lost his life in a disaster. Awards...
Category: Awards