LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Australian Motor Life-Boat In Action
This boat stationed at Queenscliff, Victoria, was built at Port Adelaide in 1926, after designs of the Institution, and her engines and fittings were supplied by the Institution.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Small Fishing Boat
Early on the morning of the 1st July the coast- guard telephoned that a small fishing boat, which had put out on the previous evening, had not returned to harbour.
She carried a crew of four. The sea was smooth, but there...
Progress
On the morning of the 23rd February the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched for her monthly engine trials, in bad weather. The local motor fishing boat Progress also put out, long-line fishing. By 10.20 A.M. a heavy gale was...
Easting
YACHT WITH BROKEN TILLER Fowey, Cornwall.—At 8.30 in the evening of the 20th of July, 1947, the Looe coastguard reported that a yacht was anchored in a very dangerous position between Looe Island and Hannafore Point and that she would break...
Alexandra
ASHORE IN A THICK FOG North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 7.20 on the morning of the 15th of August, 1947, the Seahouses coast- guard reported that a tug was ashore on Bush Rock, and that three women and two boys had been taken off by...
1939
funnel (or the exhausts, mast only for signalling and the wireless aerial, and two 40 h.p. Diesel engines. Stationed at Gorleston. - View image in PDF
Cost, £9,000.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hold Up
A cartoon published in the Birmingham Mail on life-boat day.
Reproduced by kind permission of the Editor..
Category: Drawings
Lady Hicks
LADY HICKS. - View image in PDF
Speaking at the opening ceremony. (Behind Lady Hicks is Mrs Astley Roberts, President of the Eastbourne Ladies' Life-boat Guild.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mr. William Robson
For over twenty years a member of the Kirkcudbright life-boat crew.
(From an etching by the Cumberland artist, Mr. Joseph Simpson.).
Category: Drawings
Saunterer, of Blyth
Dunbar, Haddingtonshire. — During the afternoon of the 5th August the coastguard reported that a yacht was ashore on Tyne sands, three miles west of Dunbar. She was the sailing yacht Saunterer, of Blyth, cruising in the Firth of Forth and...