LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Crew of Porthcawl's D Class Lifeboat During the Service
The crew of Porthcawl's D class lifeboat during the service - Helmsman Stuart Roberts in the foreground (Silver Medal), flanked by crew members Carl and Wayne Evans (Thanks on Vellum). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Favourite, of Peel
Early in the morning of the 17th October, during a strong gale of wind from S.S.E., signals of distress were observed from this place.
The Sir George Bowles life-boat was at once launched, and found the lugger Favourite,...
Rescue of Bathers In Distress
TWICE during th? past summer Life- boats have saved the lives of bathers who had got into difficulties. On each occasion the Life-boat was out on other duties and went to the rescue in the nick of time.
On the afternoon...
Category: Services
Few of Scarborough's Visitors
Few of Scarborough's summer visitors realise the extent of the lifeboat slipway, much of which is now buried by the rising level of the sand. Recent investigations showed it to be in remarkably good condition.
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Category: Photographs
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
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Category: Medals
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
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Category: Medals
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1900
As the years roll on the interest of the people of Great Britain in maritime matters would seem to increase rather than to diminish, and we therefore feel that in drawing the attention of the public, and more especially that part of it...
Category: Articles
Peggy, If, and Billy Boy
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 1.30 P.M. on the 4th January, 1938, the coastguard reported that the local fishing boats Peggy, If, and Billy Boy, carrying seven men altogether, were making heavy weather three miles south of...
Pride of Erin (1)
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 3.27 on the afternoon of the 31st of January, 1957, the Southend coastguard tele- phoned to say the police had been informed that flashing lights had been seen from a vessel in Machrihanish Bay. The life-boat...
Toronto, of Glasgow
On the evening of the 30th January the barque Toronto, of Glas- i gow, while on a voyage from Liverpool to | Ardrossan, was wrecked off the latter port | during a strong breeze at S.W. The Life- i boat Fair Maid of Perth was launched as j...