LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Competitors In the Strenuous Wards Hill Challenge Aboard Kirkwall's Arun Class Lifeboat
Competitors in the strenuous Wards Hill Challenge aboard Kirkwall's Arun class lifeboat Mickie Salveson. There are four hills to climb - but the snag is they are on four different islands and there is 73 miles of cycling and 8 miles of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To JAMBS HASTINGS, on his retirement, after serving 14 years as Coxswain, and pre- viously 12 years as Second Coxswain, and 8 years as Bowman of the Hartlepool Life- boat, a Certificate of Service and a Pension.
To CHARLES...
Category: Awards
Terry Rogers of Blackpool Lifeboat Station,
Terry Rogers of Blackpool lifeboat station, with his wife and children, outside Buckingham Palace before attending a royal garden party on 25 July in the presence of The Queen.
Terry was amongst a group of 41 lifeboatmen.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Tod Head
Informa- tion was received on the 15th April, from the Police at Port St. Mary, through the Coastguard, that a man had reported that a steamer was on the rocks in the Sound and in a dangerous posi- tion. The Motor Life-boat Ethel Day...
Betsy
DRIFTING FISHING BOAT TAKEN IN TOW Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 1.15 early on the morning of the 14th June, 1962, the police at Whitehead informed the honorary secretary that a boat was drifting with three people on board off Black Head. The...
Progress
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 9.45 on the evening of the 13th of May, 1956, the police reported that several red flares had been seen in the Wyre Channel, and at ten o'clock the life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson, on temporary duty at the...
Hildegard Knuppel
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 3.10 a.m. on 26th February, 1966, the police informed the honorary secretary that two men who had arrived in Dunmore by car had informed them that a boat was firing distress signals above Creadon Head. It...
Cheerful
JANUARY 20TH. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE.
At 11.43 A.M. a report was received from the police, through the coastguard, that a fishing boat was in need of help about two miles north of the harbour, and the motor life-boat Lily Glen,...
City of Hamburg
SALCOMBE.—At 10 P.M. on the 7th August, a boat, containing the master of the steamer City of Hamburg, of Dublin, whose hands and arms were severely injured, and five other persons, arrived at Salcombe, and her occupants reported their vessel...
Liffey
PORTHOUSTOCK. — Intimation having been received that a large steamer had struck on the Levellers Bocks, at about two o'clock on the morning of the 27th January, the erew of the Life-boat Charlotte were summoned, the boat waslaunched, and...