LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Lifeboat Queen : 16-Year-Old Jane Wilson Was Crowned By Ronnie Hilton at Flamborough Ladies' Guild Gala In July With Her Are Three of Her Attendants Pat Wilkins
A lifeboat queen . ..: 16-year-old Jane Wilson was crowned by Ronnie Hilton at Flamborough ladies' guild gala in July. With her are three of her attendants, Pat Wilkinson and Bridget and Andrea Waud; the fourth attendant, Stephanie... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A cold plunge
When a fisherman fell into a fast ebbing tide, who would hear his cries for help – and what could be done to save him?
After a morning’s shrimp fishing on 29 October 2013, one of Achill’s...
Category: Articles
Lifeboats In Action
Two saved in harbour dramaFaced with the choice of a wait offshore for eight hours in gale force conditions or reaching dry Land quickly by a risky harbour entry, which would you choose? Decision time When a crew of two undertook a maiden...
Category: Services
18-Year-Old Boys In IRB Rescue
A FIRST-CLASS IRB rescue, carried out in near extreme conditions for an IRB, has earned Mr. Idris Evans, aged 23, the helmsman, and crew members Mr.
Trevor Evans and Mr. Peter Evans, both aged 18 of the New Quay,...
Category: Services
Ross Corr
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 1.10 early on the morning of the 8th of June, 1955, a man at Portmagee telephoned that the trawler Ross Corr, of Dublin, had been due at Portmagee at eight o'clock the night before, but had not...
Coxswain H T 'shrimp' Danes Presents the Lifeboat Cup to the Captain of Gimmingham the Winning Team In Cromer's 1975 Football Final
Coxswain H. T. 'Shrimp' Danes presents the Lifeboat Cup to the captain of Gimmingham, the winning team in Cromer's 1975 football final.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1893
WE heartily congratulate the BOARD OF TRADE on the very satisfactory information it has been able to place before the public, in its recently-issued Annual Blue Book, relative to the shipping casualties on the coast of the United Kingdom...
Category: Articles
Record of Rescues In 1963
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"•° c 1963 Number of times Lives saved by T3 y CJ TO t O 8 o E...
Category: Services
Services of the Lifeboats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution From 1st January to 16th April, 1874
FROM IST JANUARY TO 16-rn APKIL, 1874.
John and Jenefer, fchooner, of Fowey 5 Mary, smack, of Grtmsby 6 Jessie, schooner, of Blylh 6 /Via, barqne, of Blyth— Saved vessel and crew 11 EXKX. brig, of...
Category: Services
Ceremonies
Naming and dedication Ceremonies - Wells-Next-The-Sea- Mersey Class Doris M Mann of Ampthill It was obvious as dawn broke on a cloudless and sunny summer's day on 17 July that everyone at Wells-next-the-Sea had pulled out all the stops...
Category: Inaugurations