LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Cromer Life-Boat Ruby and Arthur Reed Examining a Life-Raft Picked Up During the Service to the North Sea Gas Rig Hewitt Alpha on 15Th November 1968
The Cromer life-boat Ruby and Arthur Reed examining a life-raft picked up during the service to the North Sea gas rig Hewitt Alpha on 15th November, 1968.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Inset: Nicknamed ‘The Odeon’ For Its Retro Styling, Lymington’s Facility Also Includes An RNLI Shop
Inset: nicknamed ‘the Odeon’ for its retro styling, Lymington’s facility also includes an RnLI shop Photos: Graham Wilding. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Steamer (2)
24th November. A steamer stranded on the Goodwin Sands, "but came off with the rising tide.—Rewards, £30 16s, 6d..
A Motor Boat
Three saved by D class as casualty breaks up A service by Bembridge's D class inshore lifeboat has led to a letter from the Chairman of the Institution congratulating the helmsman and crew members for their courage and teamwork - which...
A Speed Boat
At 9.9 p.m. on igth June, 1967, news was received that a speed boat had capsized about 200 yards off the East Terrace breakwater. The life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, which was on temporary duty at the station, slipped her moorings at...
Anglers Pride
Ramsgate, Kent. At 12.19 p.m. on 5th December, 1965, the pier watchman informed the honorary secretary that a motor boat was firing flares threequarters of a mile south-east of Ramsgate and was drifting as her engine had broken down. The...
The Duke of Kent, President of the R.N.L.I., Aboard the Bembridge, Isle of Wight Life-Boat, With Coxswain Peter Smith and Mr. Arthur B. Weaver, B.E.M., Honorary Secretary, and (Below) the Duke
The Duke of Kent, President of the R.N.L.I., aboard the Bembridge, Isle of Wight life-boat, with Coxswain Peter Smith and Mr. Arthur B. Weaver, B.E.M., honorary secretary, and (below) the Duke of Kent with the Bembridge crew of the 48-foot 6... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
General Summary for 1869 (1)
Number of lives rescued by life-boats, in addition to 33 vessels saved by them 871 Number of lives saved by shore-boats, &c 860 Amount of pecuniary rewards for saving life during the year ... .. 2,705 0 8 Honorary rewards:...
Category: Annual Reports
Fairy Queen
WEXFORD.—While the fishing fleet were returning, on the 2nd March, a strong gale having suddenly sprung up from S.S.W. with a rough sea, one of the boats was observed to fly signals of distress, and another, with her sails blown away,...
R.M.L. 539
TORPEDO BOAT TAKEN IN TOW Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—On Decem- ber 30th, 1946, the motor torpedo boat R.M.L. 539, which was in tow of the tug Queensgarth, parted her tow-line during a gale five miles off the Smalls on the Pembrokeshire coast,...