LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shannons named
Volunteer crews welcomed new Shannon class lifeboats in the Summer.
The second Shannon to be placed on station arrived at Exmouth, Devon, on 12 May. At Dungeness in Kent, HRH The Princess Royal officially named and...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Days In 1943.
In 1943 more branches held flag days, more people gave, and a larger sum was given than ever before. The number of days was 857, the number who gave was 10,761,000, and the sum given £131,172. That is £17,556 more than in 1942 and...
Category: Articles
The Women Launchers of Dungeness
[This interview was broadcast in the B.B.C. programme Radio Newsreel on 19th of March, 1953, when Mr. Valentine Selsey of the B.B.C. spoke to Miss Madge Tart and Mrs. Ellen Tart, of Dungeness. It is reproduced by the courtesy of the B.B.C.] ...
Category: Articles
Left Top and Bottom: Pat Shares His Water Safety Knowledge With Members of the Public at Portpatrick In August 2003
Left top and bottom: Pat shares his Water Safety knowledge with members of the public at Portpatrick in August 2003. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Motor Boat and Faith
Cullercoats, Northumberland. At 11.15 a.m. on 29th August, 1965, St Mary's lighthouse keeper told the coxswain that a small boat was in difficulties off the lighthouse. The life-boat Sir James Knott was launched at 11.20 in a westnorth-...
Try, I'll Try and Baden Powell (1)
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk.—At 8.16 on the morning of 12th of June, 1955, the Gorleston coastguard rang up the Great Yar- mouth and Gorleston life-boat station to say that a shrimp boat had broken down off the harbour...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 9th January, 1896.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., Y.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
Caroline and Phoenician
THUBSO, N.B.—During a gale of wind from the W.S.W., with rain, on the 26th November, the schooners Caroline and Phoenician, at anchor in Scrabster Eoads, exhibited signals of distress, in response to which the Life-boat Charley Lloyd was...
Pride of Leinster and M. E. Johnson
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 8.52 on the evening of the 4th of December, 1953, the life-boat motor mechanic reported that flares had been seen north of Arklow harbour. At 9.9 the life-boat Inbhear Mor was launched. The sea was choppy, with a...
Charlie Hodson Observes Rule of Passage
Charlie Hodson observes rule of passage-making number three, grab some sleep when you can, as The Princess Royal makes 17 knots in a seaway.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs