LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.M. Motor Launch No. 323
Caister, Norfolk.—At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 15th of June, 1954, information reached the life-boathouse that H.M. motor launch No. 323, a survey vessel, had gone aground on the Barber Sands. At 12.19 the Great Yarmouth coastguard...
When In Buckie the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh
A few days later, when in Buckie, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visited Jones Shipyard, where they saw the 48ft 6in Solent relief lifeboat The Royal British Legion Jubilee, which Her Majesty had named at Henley in 1972, ten years ago;... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Feature Old Friends...
The first of the Thames lifeboats was officially named in June, marking the latest in a long legacy of lifeboats provided by The Lifeboat Fund. The early civil servants, who got together in 1866 to buy a single lifeboat, would have been...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services (From Page 190}
Lifeboat Services (from page 190} Enterprise dinghy Spirtle with one man on board, at 1648. The Pentland Firth Yacht Club's guard boat, The Mendicant, was still in attendance but was unable to make headway in the prevailing...
Category: Services
Tin Fish
SCARBOROUGH, August 1, 1987: the 37ft Oakley class lifeboat Amelia arrives back at Scarborough with the 38ft yacht Tin Fish which she had towed 24 miles after the vessel's engines had failed. A force 5/6 north-westerly wind at the...
Lady Gay
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 8.45 on the evening of the 4th of September, 1953, H.M. Customs telephoned to say that a boat was ashore near St. Anthony Lighthouse. The life-boat Hearts of Oak, on temporary duty at the station, put to sea at nine...
Walmer Life-Boat Brings In Survivors of the Buccaboo
Walmer Life-Boat Brings In Survivors of the Buccaboo. - View image in PDF
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Prince George In the Shoreham Harbour Motor Life-Boat
Prince George In The Shoreham Harbour Motor Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
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Bridlington Life-Boat Escorts Fishing-Boat In Gale
Bridlington Life-Boat Escorts Fishing-Boat In Gale. - View image in PDF
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New Ways of Raising Money
Two girls of Stamford High School, Lincolnshire, Rosetta Birkbeck and Gillian Foot, enjoy collecting for the R.N.L.I. Late last year they sent £33 14s. 4d., and explained:' We have made the collection in several different ways. Six...
Category: Donations