LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Ferry Nordic Ferry
Ferry fire puts all emergency services on alert at Harwich Harwich, Walton andFrinton and Aldeburgh East and South East Divisions Four lifeboats, three helicopters, three tugs and a harbour launch were despatched to the passenger and cargo...
Stuck In the Sands
One morning last May an army ambulance stuck in the sands at New Brighton, Cheshire, and two other vehicles which went to drag it out also stuck.
The tide was coming in, with" a nasty swell, and the need was so urgent...
Category: Articles
The Sailing Boat Chums
OCTOBER 27TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 12.45 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a sailing boat was drifting towards the sands. She appeared to be in difficulties. A westerly breeze was blowing, and the sea was...
The Whaler Paul
Dover, Kent.—On the afternoon of the 16th of September, 1952, the whaler Paul, of Dover, with three boys from Dover College on board, was blown out of the western entrance to Dover harbour. At 3.45 the life-boat Southern Africa left her...
Dominic the St.Bernard
Dominic the St Bernard is a walking advertisement for the RNLI. His jacket was made by ladies on the committee of Mevagissey branch and Dominic certainly catches the eye when he and his master Mr 'Mawman' Smith go walkies. The branch... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Nottinghamshire: TRIPLE THE FUNDRAISING
Calverton, Nottingham and West Bridgford fundraisers joined forces last year to raise money through in-store collections. Given the opportunity to hold a collection in a Morrisons store, the Nottingham Branch found themselves short of...
Category: Articles
The Storeyard's Children's Party
THE seventh Christmas party, given by the staff of the Storeyard at Broomfield Street, Poplar, with the help of the staff at Headquarters, took place on 20th December at the Bromley Public Hall.
Four days before this a tea...
Category: Articles
War on the water
On a windless Spring day off Ireland’s south coast, a magnificent steamship carrying almost 2,000 people was hit by a torpedo. It was a tragedy that would be felt around the world
The passenger...
Category: Articles
The Service to the Carmania II
The Stromness Lifeboat is lying off the steamer, and the rope by which the crew were rescued can just be seen over the steamer's stern. - View image in PDF
(Seepage 211.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sailing Trawler Ivanhoe
At 6.5 A.M. on the 16th February the coxswain heard that a sailing trawler was ashore on the south beach. He went to the coast- guard look-out, and then to the life- boat pier and saw the trawler on the beach, rolling heavily in a ground...