LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Iron Ore
At 1.30 p.m. on 7th June, 1967, Valentia Radio informed the honorary secretary that there was an injured man on board the motor vessel Iron Ore, then seven miles north west of Bray Head, who needed medical attention. The lifeboat Rowland...
Wreck on the Brisson Rocks, Cornwall
It was stated in our first Number that a part of the plan of this Journal would be to place on record deeds of gallantry in saving life from shipwreck, as an example and en- couragement to others " to go and do like- wise;" and...
Category: Articles
The Ex-Belgian Tanker Laurent Meeus (1)
OCTOBER 18TH. - FLEETWOOD, AND BARROW, LANCASHIRE. At 4.15 P.M.
the naval authorities asked the Fleetwood life-boat to go to the help of a vessel aground about one hundred yards W. by N. of Shell Wharf Buoy, and the motor...
The Ex-Belgian Tanker Laurent Meeus
OCTOBER 18TH. - FLEETWOOD, AND BARROW, LANCASHIRE. At 4.15 P.M.
the naval authorities asked the Fleetwood life-boat to go to the help of a vessel aground about one hundred yards W. by N. of Shell Wharf Buoy, and the motor...
Lans in the grip of the sea: as she lay aground under the cliffs of Hoy her crew of nine were lifted by helicopter to Longhope lifeboat.
Lans in the grip of the sea: as she lay aground under the cliffs of Hoy her crew of nine were lifted by helicopter to Longhope lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Great Services on the East Coast. Cromer Norfolk; Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Norfolk; Southwold, Suffolk; Lowestoft, Suffolk
AT 8.30, in the evening of 21st November, 1927, the Motor Life-boat at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston was launched in response to a wireless message received from s.s. Trent that help was urgently required to save the lives of the crew of the...
Category: Services
the Winch Takes the Weight the Quarter Stoppers Are Removed and Steadily the Lifeboat Is Hauled Up the Slipway
. . the winch takes the weight, the quarter stoppers are removed and steadily the lifeboat is hauled up the slipway.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rye Harbour'
Rye Harbour's Keith, Terry and Rosemary with club members on the lifeboat office steps Photo Mary Lestocq. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Idaho, of Bath U.S.
Early on the morning of the 13th Jan. intelligence was received that a vessel was shewing signals of distress off this place. On the Life-boat Alfred and'Ernest being taken to the spot it was found that the ship Idaho, of Bath, U.S.,...
The Fundraisers
Steeley determination! A donation of £25,000 was recently presented to John Clugston, chairman of the South Bank Committee Humber lifeboat appeal by Stuart Pettifor, managing director of British Steel (Sections, Plates and Commercial...
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