LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Young Dick
The Huinber, Yorkshire.—At 6.40 A.M.
on the 27th May, 1938, the signal station reported that a vessel was drifting to sea. A light southerly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat City of Bradford II was...
Dick Baxendale
Dick Baxendale, tireless worker for the Institution in South Caernarfonshire and previously in North West England..
Category: Obituaries
Dr. Harrison Broadbent on Top of the Cliff After His IRB Ordeal In Scratchell's Bay, Isle of Wight, on 10th April, 1966
Dr Harrison Broadbent On Top of the Cliff After His Irb Ordeal In Scratchell's Bay Isle of Wight On 10th April 1966 (See P 136). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (29)
MARCH 2ND. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.
An aeroplane had been reported missing, and it was thought that she might have come down at sea, but she had crashed on the beach. - Rewards, £12 9s..
An Aeroplane (22)
MAY 2 9TH. - MARGATE, KENT. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea two miles N.E. of Broadstairs, but the lifeboat could find nothing, and later it was learned that the crew had been rescued.- Rewards, £5 11s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (29)
AUGUST 16TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. An aeroplane, believed to be German, had crashed during an air-raid on Portsmouth, but only oil was found. - Rewards, £13 12s..
An Aeroplane (22)
JULY 13TH. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.
An aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but all its crew were lost and six bodies were picked up by fishing boats. - Rewards, £6 18s. (See St. Abbs, “Services by Shoreboats,” page 61.)...
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management.
May Meeting.
Longhope, Orkney, and Thurso, Caith- ness-shire.—The Longhope motor life- boat Thomas McCunn was launched at 11.30...
Category: Services
Ceremonies
Stromness On the afternoon of Thursday August 22, 1985, morning rain had given way to sunshine and the earlier buzz of conversation blending with music from the Salvation Army Band and the movement of people around Stromness harbour was...
Category: Inaugurations
Stockport Auxiliaries' 9-Ft. Life-Boat
MEMBERS of the Stockport Crew of Life-boat Auxiliaries, led by Mr. Wallace L.
Barber, aged 60, of 19 Roxton Road, Heaton Chapel, Stockport, Lancashire, who founded the crew in 1937, have completed a model of a 37-foot...
Category: Articles