LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat In the Lord Mayor's Show
The Life-boat "Robert and Catherine," late of Appledore, now of the Reserve Fleet at Poplar, in the Lord Mayor's Show of the 9th November, 1928, with Coxswain W. T. Hammond and members of the Walton-on-Naze Crew on... - View image in PDF
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Kathleen, of Hartlepool
About 7 o'clock on the evening of the 9th October, two guns were fired and rockets thrown up from the Cockle Float- ing light. The night was dark and rainy, with a strong wind and a heavy sea on the beach. The Caister life-boat was...
Bridget, of Dungarvan
DUNGARVAN.—At 3 P.M. on the 2nd August, the Life-boat Christopher Ludlow was launched from this station, and, after an hour and a half of hard rowing, the crew succeeded in boarding the brigantine Bridget, of Dungarvan, which vessel while on...
Atlantic award
The Walter and Elizabeth Groombridge award is made each year for the most meritorious service in an Atlantic B class lifeboat. The RNLI Trustee Committee met on 23 July and agreed that the 2007 award should be made to Flamborough Helmsman...
Category: Articles
The American Yacht Bolero
AMERICAN YACHT AGROUND AND HOLED Selsey, Sussex. At 12.45 a.m. on Saturday the 3rd of August, 1963, the Selsey coastguard told the honorary secretary that the American yacht Bolero was aground on a wreck in Bracklesham Bay. At 1.15 the...
(Left) for Extra Buoyancy, Gas Can Be Released from the Canister Shown By Pulling the Red Toggle.
(Below) Rear View of the Jacket, Showing The Retro Reflective Tape On Its Safety Harness. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Felmer
Ramsgate, Kent. At 6.38 on the evening of the 10th of October, 1959, the east pier watchman told the cox- swain that red flares had been seen off Ramsgate harbour. At 6.48 the life- boat Michael and Lily Davis left her moorings in a moderate...
Pride and Sceptre
JANUARY 21ST. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. A strong N.E. gale was blowing, with snow storms. The sea was very rough. Two local motor fishing boats, Pride and Sceptre, were at sea, line-fishing, and at noon the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Sidney Harry Bartlett Page, of Southend- on-Sea. He has been coxswain for nearly fifteen years, has taken part in the rescue of over 300 lives, and has won the Institution's silver medal for...
Category: Articles