LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lewisham Branch
The bowls club of Britannic House, the London headquarters of British Petroleum, held an invitation tournament in August. It was in aid of the RNLI and this photograph shows the players launching their bowls towards the centre of the green... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Nellie
BRIXHAM, SOUTH DEVON.—The ketch Nellie, of Littlehampton, bound from Portsmouth for Falmouth in ballast, was seen in the bay riding at anchor and flying her ensign, union down, in her mizen rigging, on the afternoon of the 30th January. The...
Hibernia
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 8.33 P.M. on the 9th November, 1937, the coastguard reported distress signals about eight and a half miles in a north-easterly direction from Cromer. A moderate N.N.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. The No. 1 motor...
Two Dinghies
Rowing dinghy WHILE SAILING his lift 6in Laser dinghy off Thorpe Bay Yacht Club at 1555 on Friday February 27. 1981, 16-year-old Carl Palmby saw someone on the beach waving to alert him to a casualty. He immediately headed for the position...
Coxswain Rodney Terry of St.Mary's Isles of Scilly
Coxswain Rodney Terry of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly. He first joined the lifeboat crew in 1965, became second coxswain in 1984 and coxswain in 1985. In his working life he is a foreman stevedore, responsible for supervising the loading... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Regency
Caister, Norfolk - At 4.45 p.m. on 23rd June, 1966, the station mechanic noticed a vessel dragging her anchors in Yarmouth Roads. She was put under observation and at 5.40 she hoisted a distress signal. The life-boat The Royal Thames was...
R.N.L.I. Active In Spanish Waters
LAST year the R.N.L.I, sent two of its latest life-boats to Spain, the mission following a visit to this country by a Spanish Red Cross delegation to investigate the structure of the R.N.L.I, and to look at various types of...
Category: Services
A Vessel
A telephone message had in the meantime been sent to Whitelink Bay, notifying a vessel in distress, and the Coxswain of the Life-boat stationed at that place at once launched the Three Brothers and proceeded to the scene of the accident. She...
Dainty
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 1.55 on the afternoon of the 9th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was in difficulties in Saundersfoot Bay. At 2.1 the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at low...
Cromdale
During a dense fog on the 23rd May the ship Cromdale, of Aberdeen, was wrecked at Beast Point. The vessel was a large one of 1,849 tons register, bound from Taltal to Plymouth with a cargo of nitrates. Information of the disaster reached...