LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Thanksgiving
Only two of the cobles belong- ing to North Sunderland put to sea on 29th March, as the sea was very heavy.
During the afternoon a thick fog came on and one of the boats returned ashore. Towards evening the fog got worse,...
Naom Cait
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At noon on the 24th of April, 1951, the Sea Fisheries Agent at Cahirciveen telephoned that the motor trawler Naom Cait, of Dublin, was missing with a crew of seven. At 12.15, the life-boat A.E.D.
left...
(Below) When the Right Hon the Lord Mayor of London Sir Anthony Jolliffe Cbe
(Below) When The Right Hon The Lord Mayor of London, Sir Anthony Jolliffe, CBE was in Weymouth during the summer, he visited the lifeboat station and was shown all over the 54ft Arun Tony Vandervell. He is seen here II) in the engine room... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Receiving a Cheque from the Derbyshire Association of Sub Aqua Clubs
When you are representing the RNLI and receiving a cheque from the Derbyshire Association of Sub Aqua Clubs you have to be prepared to sink to certain depths. This is what Shoreline member John Tester (r) did when Peter Townend (I) made the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Above) Some of the 67 Survivors from the Factory Ship Pionersk Are Landed In Lerwick.
(Above) Some of the 67 survivors from the factory ship Pionersk are landed in Lerwick.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lily
Rhyl, Flintshire, and New Brighton, Cheshire - At 10.15 p.m. on i5th July, 1966, news was received that the m.f.v.
Lily had been towed from about 11 miles west of the Bar lightvessel by the Bar pilot boat and handed over to...
The Boulogne Life-Boat Society
ON the 16th of September, 1951, the Boulogne Life-boat Society inaugur- ated the new life-boat and station which have replaced those destroyed in the war. The ceremony was at- tended by the Dover life-boat, Southern Africa, and her crew, Mr....
Category: Articles
Breadwinner (1)
Hastings, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 13th of February, 1959, the honorary secretary at Hastings telephoned the coxswain of the Dungeness life-boat to ask if any of the local boats had seen the fishing boat...
Beau Geste
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 10.50 on the night of the 3rd of July, 1952, the Foreland coastguard reported a flare, and a few minutes later stated that a vessel to the south had made an S O S signal. The life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched at...
Ocean Reaper
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 10.5 on the night of the 1st of December, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing vessel appeared to be in difficulties, and drifting, half a mile south-east of the breakwater, and at 10.40 reported that she was...