LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Magician, of Liverpool
APRIL 15TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 9.10 at night on the 14th of April the Peterhead coastguard reported a vessel in difficulties at Craigwan, two miles north of Peterhead. Later he reported that no help was needed...
Right: The Skegness Lifeboat In An Ice Field In The North Sea Searching For The Dutch Coaster Tuko
Right:The Skegness lifeboat in an ice field in the North Sea searching for the Dutch coaster Tuko.The crew eventually found her only to discover she was not in danger.The lifeboat returned to Skegness after nine hours. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Inaugural Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats. Stromness, Longhope, Piel (Barrow), Swanage and Portrush
Lieutenant H.R.H. Prince George, K.G., G.C.V.O., R.N., named the two Motor Life-boats at Stromness and Longhope in the Orkneys on the 6th June.
These are the two most northerly Life-boat Stations in the British...
Category: Inaugurations
A Life-Boat at the Naval Review at Spithead
IN November, 1923, a special review of the Atlantic Fleet was held at Spithead for the Dominion Prime Ministers then attending the Imperial Conference. On the day on which the review took place —a day of rough weather—the City of Bradford,...
Category: Articles
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
THE SOUTH BANK MEETINGS, MAY 13, 1986 Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards Apart from the citations for a silver and two bronze medals which received rapturous applause when they were read out to the audience at the Royal...
Category: Meetings
The Auxiliary Barge Ethel
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 1.45 on the morning of the 3rd of July, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen four miles south-south-east of the look- out. At 2.10 the life-boat Edian Cour- tauld...
The Oyster Smack Frederick George, of Maldon
Clacton-on-Sea, and Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 9.43 a.m. on 15th January, 1968, the coastguard informed the brother of the acting honorary secretary of the Clactonon- Sea life-boat station that the oyster smack Frederick George of Maldon...
Successful Treatment of the Apparently Drowned
IN the year 1857 the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, as will be remembered by its supporters, appealed to the medical profession in this country and, through foreign ambassadors, to the public medical authorities of several other countries,...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (21)
FEBRUARY 24TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but no trace of it was found.
The life-boat saw a paravane and reported it to the coastguard. - Rewards, £19...
An Aeroplane (90)
AUGUST 15TH. - AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND.
A German bomber had come down and the crew of five had taken to their rubber boat, but they were picked up by a fishing boat. - Rewards, £4 7s. 6d..