LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Splendid Bonfire Representing the Houses of Parliament Was Built By the Crew of the Calshot Lifeboat for Their Annual Bonfire and Firework Party Which This Year Raise
A splendid bonfire, representing the Houses of Parliament, was built by the crew of the Calshot lifeboat for their annual bonfire and firework party which this year raised £1,700.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Morning Star, of Dublin
The first Life-boat service rendered this year was that per- formed on the morning of the 1st January last, by the Life-boat Fair Maid of Perth, placed on this station a few months pre- viously ; and it was also the first occasion the boat...
Vee Dee Bee
Bembridge, Isle of Wight - At 10.57 p.m. on iSth June, 1967, flares were reported in the vicinity of Horse Sand Fort. The life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched at 11.23 m a light south south westerly breeze and a smooth sea. The tide was ebbing....
An Epilogue to the Loss of Solomon Browne from Dr D W L Leslie Chairman Penlee Station Branch
MOUSEHOLE VILLAGE and harbour just west of Penzance is famous for its display of Christmas lights—an enterprise supported by the whole village and particularly by the Penlee lifeboat crew. Last year Charles Greenhaugh, as chairman of the...
Category: Articles
Inga Tholstrup Aground on the Left With Attendant Tug and Sister Ship Elisabet Tholstrup During the Unloading of Her Cargo of Gas Photograph By Courtesy of Michae
Inga Tholstrup aground on the left with attendant tug and sister ship Elisabet Tholstrup during the unloading of her cargo of gas. photograph by courtesy of Michael Welch. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Deck Plan of a Self-Righting Life-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution Showing the Manner In Which the Gear Is Stowed
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Category: Drawings
The S.S. Lady Beatrix, of Sunderland
Early on the morning of the-16th Feb- ruary last, the same life-boat put off in reply to signals of distress from the S. S. Lady Beatrix, of Sunderland, bound from that port to London with coals, which vessel had struck on the Middle Cross...
The Fund Raisers
Air support During a weekend in October BBC Radio Newcastle ran a lifesaver appeal to raise money for the lifeboat service.
Listeners rang in to pledge money or to offer items for a charity auction, and many organisations,...
Category: Articles
The S.S. City of Bristol and the S.S. Selnes
Southend'On-Sea, Essex.—At 5.40 in the evening, on the 26th of November, 1950, the pier head signal station re- ported a message from the Walton-on- Naze coastguard. The S.S. City of Bristol, of Glasgow, had been in collision with the...
Jenny Jones of Barmouth
On the 24th March, the smack Jenny Jones, of Barmouth, was observed in a dangerous posi- tion, with signals of distress flying, in Porth- dinllaen Bay, during a gale of wind from N.W. The Cotton Sheppard life-boat was quickly launched, and...