LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
From Navy, Army and Air Force
IN 1938, in response to the Institution's appeals, the Navy contributed £343, the Army, £412, and the Air Force £303. This year the Navy, to which the appeal is made at the beginning of "the year, has contributed...
Category: Donations
None (5)
Galway Bay. At 3.30 on the after- noon of the 13th of June, 1960, the local medical officer asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would go to Inishere Island and take a sick woman to Rossaveal on the mainland for hospital treatment....
A Dinghy (4)
LIFE-BOAT BREAKS ADRIFT AT NIGHT Lytham-StAnne's, Lancashire. During the night of the 29th September, 1962, the Workington life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX, which was at moorings off Lytham after survey broke adrift and was driven...
A Sailing Boat (3)
Selsey, Sussex. At 3.47 on the after- noon of the 23rd of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing boat had capsized off Bognor Regis. At 3.55 the life-boat John R. Webb, on temporary duty at the station...
Norway
— Shortly after midnight on the 19th-20th July the steamer Norway, of Christiania, when bound from that place to Grangemouth, with a cargo of pulp and paper, and carrying eleven passengers, got out of her course and stranded off Skateraw.<...
None (1)
Galway Bay.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 12th of January, 1956, the local doctor asked if the life- boat would take to the mainland a man who had been seriously injured and needed hospital treatment. As there was no other...
A Yacht
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 18th of July, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized on the south side of the boom defence. At 4.20 the life-boat Greater London, II...
La Bonne Sante
Margate, Kent.—At 10.55 on the morning of the 28th of July, 1956, the coastguard reported that a yacht was ashore on Hook sands. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched at 11.10. The sea was rough, and there was a...
Albatross (1)
Dover, Kent.—At 2.17 on the after- noon of the 13th of August, 1957, the Sandgate coastguard telephoned to say a motor boat was in difficulties alongside the South Goodwin light- vessel. The life-boat Southern Africa put out at 2.30 in a...
Hornchurch and Rainham Branch's
A one-sided fight at Hornchurch. A member of the Metropolitan Police Force womens' self defence team makes light work of a would-be attacker during a demonstration at Hornchurch and Rainham branch's silver jubilee... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs