LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Teddington
SEPTEMBER 17TH. - NOVEMBER 6TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. The S.S. Teddington, of London, with a valuable cargo on board, had been attacked by German aeroplanes and set on fire. Her crew had been taken off by a naval vessel and the steamer had...
The S.S. Flimston (1)
MARCH 9TH - 29TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM, AND TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE.
At 7.45 in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel aground. She was the S.S. Flimston, of over 4,500 tons, laden with steel and with a crew of 38. She...
The 37Ft 6In Rother Lifeboat Rnlb Shoreline Awaits Her Re-Dedication As Principal Guests Arrive at Arbroath Harbour Photograph By Courtesy of Iain Wight
The 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat RNLB Shoreline awaits her re-dedication as principal guests arrive at Arbroath Harbour. photograph by courtesy of Iain Wight. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Doyen of Honorary Secretaries
A VERY pleasant ceremony took place in the Guild Hall, Exeter, on the 24th July, when Mr. Courtenay H. Edmonds, the Honorary Secretary of the Exeter Branch, and Mrs. Ferris Tozer, the Honorary ' Secretary of the Ladies' Auxiliary, re...
Category: Branches
On the High Seas
ALTHOUGH the work of the Institution is to succour those in peril from shipwreck round our coasts, it is well that we should never forget the perils of those on the high seas, the gallant rescues performed there, and the long suffering which...
Category: Articles
F.E 78 The Cereal
On the afternoon of the 2nd May the Sandgate coastguard telephoned to the coxswain that the fishing boat F.E. 78—the Cereal, of Folkestone—was in difficulties half a mile off Sandgate. A moderate N.E.
gale was blowing,...
Thurrock Branch Members Turned a Derelict Ship's Lifeboat Given to the Branch Chairman Sherwin a Chase By a Grays Firm of Ship Breakers Into An Oakley Lifeboat 'Replica' She Is Named Henry
Thurrock branch members turned a derelict ship's lifeboat given to the branch chairman, Sherwin A.
Chase, by a Grays firm of ship breakers into an Oakley lifeboat 'replica'. She is named Henry de Grey and now is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
Classification of Services and Lives Saved By Inshore Rescue Boats
600 CATEGORY (1) Naval vessels . .
(2) Foreign going merchant vessels (3) Home trade merchant vessels (4) Commercial fishing vessels . .
(5) Powered pleasure craft . .
(6) Sailing...
Category: Services
The Fishery Patrol Vessel Switha
Patrol vessel holed IN EASTERLY GALES early on Thursday January 31, 1980, fishery patrol vessel Switha, bound for Leith, ran aground on the rocks near Herwit Buoy in the Firth of Forth, a mile south east of Inchkeith Island. She was holed...