LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rosemary
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At 6.10 in the evening of the 29th of November, 1949, the life-boat coxswain reported that the local fishing coble Rosemary was overdue. The life-boat Herbert Joy II was therefore launched at 6.20 in a smooth...
Swedish Lifeboat Arrives for Trials
Swedish lifeboat arrives for trials The Swedish Victoria class lifeboat, which is to be trialled by the RNLI as part of the RNLI's Lifeboats 2000 boat development programme, arrived in Poole on 15 February.
She was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Joel Grunnill (R)
Joel Grunnill (r.) retired as second coxswain of Skegness lifeboat in October after 45 years of service with the station. Among other presentations, he received a statuette of the famous Skegness Jolly Fisherman, a local honour only accorded... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Morton and Port Eynon - West Division
The delightful setting of Morton and Port Eynon. on the South Wales coast, serves to illustrate one of the benefits of the station's D class lifeboat - the ease with which it can be manoeuvred over that vast expanse of sand visible at... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
London Life-Boat Flag Day
As we go to press we are enabled to state that Life-boat Flag Day held throughout London on the 19th May was a great success, in spite of the fact that, unfortunately, the Y.M.C.A. had held their Hut Day on the 16th.
It is...
Category: Articles
J. H. Fisher and Esso Glasgow
PILOT VESSEL AND TANKER IN COLLISION Humber, Yorkshire. At 5.50 on the morning of the 12th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that the pilot vessel /. H.
Fisher and the tanker Esso Glasgow...
A Rubber Mattress
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 10.27 on the morning of the 12th of July, 1960, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that a girl had been seen floating from the beach on a rubber mattress. The life- boat Louise...
A Yacht (3)
Humber, Yorkshire. At 6.25 on the morning of the 20th of September, I960, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a light had been observed flashing off shore south of Withernsea. At 6.38 the life-boat City of Bradford III...
Resolute
FISHGUARD.—The schooner Resolute, of Aberystwyth, bound from Abersocb. for Bristol with a cargo of lead ore, showed a signal of distress while at anchor in the bay, during a fresh gale from the S., on the morning of the 13th December. The...
People and Places
Some old photos can lead charmed lives - and these were some of the lucky ones which survived by pure chance, or rather by a chain of coincidences.
How did they arrive here? Well: if you treat your dustbin men nicely they...
Category: Articles