LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Inaugural Ceremony of the Weymouth Motor Lifeboat
THE Inaugural Ceremony of the new Weymouth Motor Life-boat took place on 16th July on the Nothe Parade, in the presence of many hundreds of people. The Motor Life-boat from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, was also present.
This is...
Category: Inaugurations
Centenary of the South Holland Society for the Saving of the Shipwrecked
Front Row. left to right: Mr. Julius (Secretory of the South Holland Society). Baron SwecrU, Mr. - View image in PDF
Colville, Mr. Lels, Mr. Lels, jun., Sir Woodbum Kirby.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
24 hours on the Thames
Tower Lifeboat Station is the busiest in the UK. To find out exactly what life is like for the crew members that save lives on the capital's most famous waterway, Writer Catherine Richards spent 24 hours shadowing a shift ....
Category: Articles
Prince Ivanhoe Holed and Aground Off Horton Beach With the Mumbles 47Ft Watson Lifeboat Alongside Photograph By Courtesy of 'Western Mail and Echo'
Prince Ivanhoe holed and aground off Horton beach with The Mumbles 47ft Watson lifeboat alongside. photograph by courtesy of 'Western Mail and Echo'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
More Than 50 Hardy Walkers Set Off on a 20 Mile Trek from Whitstable Harbour
More than 50 hardy walkers set off on a 20 mile trek from Whitstable harbour to boost funds for the planned extension to the boathouse. Chairman of the fund raising committee, Mrs Linda Livingstone, organised the sponsored walk to Faversham... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Crew of Margate Lifeboat Are Presented to Princess Margaret By Alan Wear (R) Station Honorary Secretary Before the Service of Dedication: (I to R) Crew Member Kenneth Sandwell Motor M
The crew of Margate lifeboat are presented to Princess Margaret by Alan Wear (r.), station honorary secretary, before the service of dedication: (I. to r.) Crew Member Kenneth Sandwell, Motor Mechanic Alfred Lacey, Second Coxswain David... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Annual Meeting
THE hundred and fifteenth annual meeting of the Governors of the In- stitution was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, at 3 P.M. on Wednesday, 26th April. Over 2,500 people were present.
H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, K.G.,...
Category: Meetings
Ems Ore, of Monrov
Penlee, Cornwall - At 7 a.m. on ist October, 1966, the captain of the motor vessel Ems Ore, of Monrovia, asked for police and medical help. At 9.45 the life-boat Solomon Browne launched in a fresh north westerly breeze and slight sea. The...
The S.S. Miguel, of Bilbao
Hartlepool, Co. Durham.—28th February.
At 11.19 A.M. the coastguard reported that the s.s. Miguel, of Bilbao, was in difficulties with her steeringchain broken, about twelve miles E.N.E. of West Hartlepool. A...
The Libra
A vessel was observed in the offing making direct for Saltburn, at 2 P.M. on the 8th December, and as a tremendous sea was running, and the wind was blowing a gale from the E.N.E., the crew of the Life-boat Charles and Ann were summoned, and...