LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fishing Boat (2)
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 3.5 P.M.
on the 29th April, 1938, a message was received from the pierhead that a small open fishing boat was in distress off South Shoebury Buoy. A N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The...
A Fishing Boat (1)
On the morning of 8th April messages were received from the Coastguard and Police that a fishing boat was in distress in the Rock Channel. The No. 1 Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Anne Miles left her moorings at 11.45 A.M. in a moderate N.W....
Green Pastures
Blyth, Northumberland.—At 12.1 on the afternoon of the 27th of October, 1952, the coastguard telephoned to say a message had been received from New- biggin that the Newbiggin life-boat was unable to launch and escort in a fishing coble. The...
Happy Spring
Caister, Norfolk. At 9.5 on the evening of the 9th of October, 1959, a flare one mile north of Caister was seen.
Ten minutes later the life-boat Jose Neville was launched in a moderate swell. A moderate...
Prince of Wales's Visit to a Life-Boat Worker
AFTER the Annual Meeting, which was held in the Central Hall, Westminster, the Prince of Wales paid a private visit to the Westminster Hospital to see Miss Hannah Denham, who for many years had been a patient in the incurable ward, and who...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Stamp Club
As was announced in The Life-boat for last November, Miss Margaret Power, of Mount Royal, Old Common, Cobham, Surrey, honorary secretary of the Cobham branch, has formed a stamp club to sell postage stamps for the benefit of the Institution....
Category: Donations
None (5)
THREE BOATS CALLED Bembridge, Isle of Wight, Selsey and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 3.5 p.m. on i8th February, 1964, the coastguard told the Bembridge honorary secretary that a naval Sea Hawk aircraft was missing between St. Catherine's...
Morena
Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—At 7.5 on the morning of the 20th of July, 1952, information was received from the coastguard that a yacht had burned a red flare four to five miles north- north-west of Tol-Pedn-Penwith. The life-boat Susan Ashley was...
Jeanine of Hamble
South Eastern Division Catamaran in Distress A WELL-REEFED CATAMARAN making heavy weather two-and-a-half miles off St Margaret's, Kent, was seen by the Coastguard at 9.10 a.m. on Sunday, October 21, 1973. Dover lifeboat station was put...
Marathon Lifeboatman
Marathon lifeboatman Congratulations to Mark Petty- Mayor, crew member of the Southend- on-Sea inshore lifeboat, for taking part in the 1996 London Marathon to raise money for the RNLI.
This was Mark's first marathon,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs