LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Custard Torpedo
Broken mast ABERDOVEY'S ATLANTIC 21 ILB launched at 1515 on Sunday November 12, 1978, after being informed by HM Coastguard that a sailing dinghy had capsized in the estuary; her mast was broken.
It was raining at the...
Barrow May 16 1987
British Nuclear Fuels Limited's (BNF1) marine terminal provided an ideal location for the naming ceremony of Barrow's 47ft Tyne class lifeboat, on a cool sunny day in May.
The new lifeboat James Bibby—dressed... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Golden Island
NORTH DEAL.—In response to the signals fired by the light-ships, and a vessel burning large flares on the Goodwin Sands, the Mary Somerville Life-boat was launched at about 2.30 A.M. on the 15th May, during a N.N.E. wind and a heavy sea. The...
Our "Life-Boat Saturday" Fund
ANOTHER year of " Life-boat Saturday " work has closed, and notwithstanding the great hindrance to advancement in the shape of a General Election, and County Council and School Board Elec- tions, good progress has been made, up-...
Category: Articles
Kestrel
Lowestoft, Suffolk. — At 9.59 on the night of the 16th of June, 1948, the coastguard reported that a fishing boat, with a rope round her propeller, was burning oily rags half a mile off Corton beach. The motor life-boat Mary Scott, on...
Coxswain Edward J. Smith, of Kessingland
COXSWAIN EDWARD J. SMITH, of Kes- singland, who retired in February, 1937, at the age of fifty-eight, on the closing of the station, died four months later. He had served as coxswain for seven and a half years and as an officer of the...
Category: Obituaries
Rousalka
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 10.15 on the night of the 25th of July, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a man had reported that a yacht was drifting three miles east-north-east of Filey Brigg Buoy. At 10.55 the life-boat The Isa & Penryn...
Eight Shillings to Mend a Life-Boat
THE honorary secretary of the life-boat station at Bridlington has had the fol- lowing letter : The Secretary of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, Briglinton.
" DEAR SIR, " We have been leaning about...
Category: Donations
M. E. Johnson
Rossi "--• „ Co. Wexford.—On the 20th ^ uoer, 1938, the crew of four of the motor schooner M. E.
Johnson, of Dublin, were rescued, and from the 21st to 23rd December, the life-boat rendered salvage services to the...
Norman Nasmyth
HELP FOR LIFE-BOAT ON PASSAGE Aberdeen. At 10.30 on the morning of the 19th May, 1963, the coastguard ininformed the honorary secretary that the reserve life-boat Norman Nasmyth had broken down off Portlethen while on passage from Montrose...