LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pilot Me
At 2.30 A.M.
on the 8th April the motor fishing boat Pilot Me put to sea to haul crab-pots off Marske, the sea then being rough.
As the wind and sea were increasing the Coxswain telephoned to Redcar at 7...
Standing By Fishing Boats
The Scarborough motor life-boat on 2nd January, 1939. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (3)
The Humber, Yorkshire.—9th May, 1939. An aeroplane had crashed into the sea off the Lincolnshire coast, but only wreckage was found. Two shoreboats also took part in the search.
(See "Shoreboat Services,"...
Sixty Years of Service
MR. J. R. BARNETT, O.B.E., M.I.N.A., of the famous Glasgow firm of Messrs.
G. L. Watson, retired at the end of July from the post of consulting naval architect to the Institution, and the Committee of Management, as some...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat at Leicester
The Pearly King of Leicester collecting. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mr. Frederick Britain, of Southend-On-Sea
death the Institution greatly regrets is Mr. Frederick Britain, of Southend- on-Sea, who died on 1st January at the age of sixty-eight. For eighteen years he was the honorary secretary of the station. He was appointed in 1914, and retired in...
Category: Obituaries
Two 40 H.P. Engines
The 45-feet Watson cabin motor life-boat at Cromer. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
In Distress In Bridlington Bay
(From the painting by John Taylor Allerston, an eye-witness.).
Category: Drawings
Seafarer
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 1.53 in the afternoon of the 14th of June, 1948, during a thick fog, the Southend coast- guard reported that information had been received that a vessel was on Patersen's Rock, Sanda. Two coast- guards went...