LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rosa
FISHING BOAT ON FIRE Gourdon, Kincardineshire.—At 5.30 in the evening of the 18th of January, 1948, the coastguard reported distress signals and at 5.55 the motor life-boat Margaret Dawson was launched. A strong west-south-west breeze was...
Wrecking a Life-Boat
A model of the life-boat, Queen Victoria, in the battle of flowers at Guernsey.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Life-Boat on Show In Derby
The new Bridlington life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield II was on show at the Coronation Exhibition in Derby (see page 593). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A "Fishing Fleet" Calendar
READERS of The Life-boat will be familiar with the name of Mr. H.
Jenkins, the photographer of Lowestoft, as a number of his fine photographs of life-boat work, which he has generously allowed the Institution to use, have ...
Category: Advertisement
Fishing Boats (1)
Wbitby, Yorkshire. At 11.30 on the morning of the 9th of March, 1960, the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth, after completing an engine trial, went to meet four local fishing vessels, which were returning to harbour in a strong east-south-easterly...
Roger Bushell
Torbay, Devon.—At noon on the 6th of October, 1955, a local trawler company reported that their trawler Roger Bushell, of Brixham, which had a crew of eight, had lost her propeller and was drifting ten miles east-north-east of Berry Head. At...
Ann Elizabeth
SHAFT WAS BROKEN Whitby, Yorkshire. At 8.35 p.m. on 25th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small fishing boat was flashing a light about one mile north-west of the harbour entrance.
The sea...
A Boat (5)
South wold, Suffolk. At 7.14 p.m.
on nth September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat was flying a distress signal about three miles north of Southwold. The tide was ebbing and there was a...
A Raffle Prize With a Difference: Mv Oahu
A raffle prize with a difference: MV Oahu, or at least the master of this ship, Captain Dennis Smith, decided, as part of his ship's Christmas and New Year celebrations at sea, to raffle his job for the day. The raffle raised £175... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Moonshine
Hastings, Sussex - At 8.55 p.m. on 17th April, 1968, the motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen about five miles south east of the life-boat station.
The life-boat Fairlight was launched...