LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Prins Alexander
Ramsgate, Kent.-—At 5.44 on the morning on the 10th of July, 1952, the ! coastguard reported that the motor vessel Prins Alexander, of Rotterdam, and the S.S. N. 0. Ragenaes, of I Haugesund, had been in collision about eight miles east by...
Southend-On-Sea May 2 1986:
Southend-on-Sea, May 2, 1986: on a brilliant day, with bunting splashing colour across the blue skies, Princess Anne came to Southend-on-Sea to name a new lifeboat after a local hero. She met and talked to station officials, crew members and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Conferences
North Eastern and Irish Free State Districts.
A CONFERENCE of Honorary Workers in the North Eastern District was held at Bridlington on 18th September last. Representatives from thirty-six Branches and Guilds were present...
Category: Meetings
Constantia, of Bremen
The same life-boat and two steam-tugs also succeeded, with much difficulty, in rescuing the ship Constantia, of Bremen, and her crew1 of 26 men, that vessel having grounded on the Goodwin Sands, in a heavy gale of wind, with heavy snow-...
An Aeroplane (27)
AUGUST 5TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
An aeroplane had dived into the sea, but only wreckage was found. - Rewards, £18 1s..
Lifeboat Lottery
Lucky Lifeboat Lottery winners Mr and Mrs Fisher of Chester so enjoyed their prize holiday that they wrote to tell the Lifeboat magazine all about it The spring 2004 Lifeboat Lottery prize was a trip on the world's most celebrated train,...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
Maritime England A YEAR-LONG celebration of the sea is planned for Maritime England 1982 by the English Tourist Board. There may be as many as 2,000 special events put on in different parts of the country for the pleasure of visitors from...
Category: Articles
Mr. W. H. Richards
MR. W. H. RICHARDS, previously second coxswain at the former Lyn- mouth life-boat station, died in a London hospital on the ist December, 1963, at the age of 82.
He was the last survivor of the crew which, in January 1899...
Category: Obituaries
(Above) Three Cheers for Her Majesty As Britannia Passes Joy and John Wade
(Above) Three cheers for Her Majesty as Britannia passes Joy and John Wade.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter By the Editor
THE STORY OF 'The Year of the Lifeboat', 1974, was one of a triumph of faith: faith in a service of 150 years' standing and of the voluntary principle which is its essence, faith in the capacity of the voluntary workers of the...
Category: Articles