LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Inshore Lifeboats: Dedication of Eastney and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Atlantic 21S
Dedication of The Waveney Forester at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and of Guide Friendship II at Eastney.SIR ALEC ROSE took part in the dedication of both Atlantic 21 The Waveney Forester at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston on July 29 and of...
Category: Inaugurations
Cove and Kilcreggan Branch Flower Show
Finishing touches being made to the exhibits at Cove and Kilcreggan branch flower show. It is an annual event and is growing in popularity and size all the time. Last year's show, which was opened by the Reverend C. K. O. Spence,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hilda II, Betty Sheader and Rachel
Scarborough, Yorkshire - At 4.55 a.m. on i4th August, 1966, attention wasdrawn to the fact that three fishing cobles were at sea in rapidly deteriorating weather. At 5.5 the life-boat J. G. Graves of Sheffield was launched in a strong...
The Lifeboat Service - Past and Present
725 Years Ago The following item was first published in THE LIFEBOAT of January, 1861.
VALUE OF BAROMETRICAL INDICATION.
ON the occasion of the hurricane which swept the island of St. Kilda, in the...
Category: Articles
Pandema, of Plymouth, and Besty, of Brixham
On the night of 18th March the brigantine Pandema, of Ply- mouth, bound from Cardiff to London with railway iron, struck on the Doomedbar Sands off Padstow during a strong northerly gale and heavy sea. The life-boat at Padstow was at once...
Above: Poster By Michael Downs Aged 14 of Carleton Skipton Yorks (11 Years and Over)
Above: Poster by Michael Downs, aged 14, of Carleton, Skipton, Yorks. - View image in PDF
(11 years and over); right: Poster by Stephen Coles, aged 9, of Billericay, Essex (8 to 10 years).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Boys
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 10.2 on the night of the 30th of August, 1960, the Irish naval authorities at Cobh informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Keizersveer of Amsterdam had an Irish fishing boat intow about a...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ARDROSSAN, N.B.—The NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION has provided a new Life-boat for this place, the crew having lost confidence in the old boat, consequent on her having upset when in tow. The new one is 34 feet long, 8£ feet wide, and...
Category: Articles
Cromer Lifeboat Museum: Don Harvev (I) the Honorary Curator and Jim Smith Station Honorary Secretary With Some of the Piclures of Coxswain Henry Blogg
Cromer lifeboat museum: Don Harvev (I.), the honorary curator, and Jim Smith, station honorary secretary, with some of the piclures of Coxswain Henry Blogg.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Janet Worthington, Lady Louisa Pennant, and Crest
In response to signals of distress, the Life-boat Charley Lloyd was twice launched on the night of the 31st March last, and brought ashore the crews, numbering in all ten men, of the schooners Janet Worthington, of Buncorn, Lady Louisa...