LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Admiralty Trawler Kirkella
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- * folk.—At 2.40 A.M. on the 20th October, 1939, the Gorleston coastguard reported that a vessel north of the St.
Nicholas Light-vessel had fired distress signals. The light-vessel also...
Rait Castle
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—At 11.20 in the morning of the 27th of November, 1948, the harbour master reported a telephone message from the Post Office at Barmston that a vessel was ashore, and the motor life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield, was...
The Late Commander Stopford C. Douglas, R.N. (1)
The Late Commander Stopford C Douglas RN. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The 46-Feet Gorleston Type of Motor Life-Boat
The 46-Feet Gorleston Type of Motor Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Late Captain Nigel Dixon Obe Rn Director Rnli
The late Captain Nigel Dixon, OBE RN, Director, RNLI. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Earl Percy
PALLING, NORFOLK.—On the 23rd December, at 5.30 A.M., the British Workman Life-boat proceeded to the Hasborough Sand, in reply to signals of distress, during a strong W.N.W. wind and heavy sea. On arriving there, she found the s.s. Earl...
Eros and the Escort Vessel Challenger
NOVEMBER 3RD. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 7 P.M. a message was received from the Kinnaird Head coastguard that a wireless call for help had been received by way of the R.A.F. Station at Rosehearty. The life-boat crew were assembled and...
A Motor Cruiser (1)
MOTOR CRUISER FOUND BY AID OF SEARCHLIGHT Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 6.37 on the evening of the 23rd September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had broken down, had run out of fuel and was drifting...
Mrs. Fairrie, President of the Hoylake Ladies' Life-Boat Guild
BY the death on 12th April last of Mrs.
A. J. Fairrie, President of the Hoylake Ladies' Life-boat Guild, in her eightyninth year, the Institution has lost the oldest of its many lady workers. For over thirty ysars she...
Category: Obituaries