LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Steamer (33)
JULY 25TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT. A steamer in a convoy was sinking as the result of enemy action, but there was no one on board. The life-boat remained by until she sank, and then found that the crew had been rescued by another vessel. -...
A Rowing Dinghy
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the afternoon of the 27th of July, 1957, the no. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was finishing a demonstration of a rescue by breeches buoy during an exercise in Whitby harbour when a message was received that a small...
A Year's Halfpennies and Two Years' Farthings
FOR the fifth year running the Institution has received a gift of a year's collection of halfpennies. It numbered 494, or £1 Os. 7d.
A gift of 500 farthings, or 10s. 5d., which took two years to collect, has been...
Category: Donations
A Sailing Dinghy
Dungeness, Kent.—At 11.50 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1954, the New Romney police telephoned that a lady at Littlestone had reported that a sailing dinghy, with a crew of two, was being blown seawards off Littlestone. At...
A Fishing Boat
Arklow, Co. Wicklow - At 7.10 p.m.
on 4th December, 1967, the mechanic informed the honorary secretary that a small open fishing boat from Arklow was overdue. The life-boat Inbhear Mor slipped her moorings at 7.25 in a...
Four Survivors from a D.U.K.W. Which Overturned In Rough Seas Off Blackpool on 19th December, 1966
Four survivors from a D.U.K.W. which overturned in rough seas off Blackpool on 19th December, 1966. One of the men was drowned as he was being rescued.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Team of 24 Students from the City and Guild's College Union of Imperial College London
A team of 24 students from the City and Guild's College Union of Imperial College, London, set out on July 10 to try to set a record for pedalling non stop 3,675 miles round the coast of Britain; they arrived back in London within a few... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Other IRB Launches
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 121 and 130, the following launches on service were made during the months of December 1966, to February., 1967, inclusive:...
Category: Services
Three of a Kind - the Grahams Heft) and the Stotts.
Three of a kind - the Grahams Heft) and the Stotts.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Fishing Boat (1)
Thurso, Caithness-shire. — 15th-16th April. A fishing boat was missing, but could not be found. Next day she was reported ashore, upside-down, atDunnet Head. There the life-boat found her, but no trace of her crew.—Rewards, £7 12s. and...