LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Advanced search

Filter by

You can search by year, volume, issue and/or content type.
Year:
Add a to date (optional)
Volume:
Add a to volume (optional)
Issue:
Add a to issue (optional)
Type of content:
You can search by vessel, date and/or lifeboat station.
Service date:
Add a to date (optional)
Clear all filters
43769 search results for 'The S.S. Chant 63'
List view Card view

A Fighter Aeroplane

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

FEBRUARY 5TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. A fighter aeroplane had been reported to have crashed in the sea, but nothing was seen and the life-boat was recalled by a wireless message. - Rewards, £24 11s.

Fishponds Branch Bristol

Date: Autumn 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 490

At least a peck of pickled onions picked. Not by Peter Piper but by a worthy rival in Mrs V. J. Anderson who over the last few years has worked tirelessly, peeling and pickling her way to raising £600 for Fishponds branch, Bristol. She... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Robert Watson, of Sunderland

Date: January 1862

Volume: 05

Issue: 43

On the 2nd November, the barque Robert Watson, of Sunderland, ran ashore at Seaton Carew, in a heavy N.N.W. gale; the life-boat at that place was quickly launched and took off 5 of her crew; 6 others had previously effected a safe landing in...

James Cable

Date: November 1927

Volume: 26

Issue: 292

Coxswain at Aldeburgh 1888 to 1917. Three times awarded the Institution's Silver Medal for gallantry in rescuing life from shipwreck. Holder of the Royal Humane Society's Silver Medal, and three times awarded its Thanks on Vellum,... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Hally Lise

Date: June 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 318

— On the 19th March the yacht Holly Lise was cap- sized and the motor life-boat rescued one of her crew.—Rewards, £8 10s.; bronze medal to Robert C. Brown, assistant motor mechanic, with vellum, grant of £1 and 16s. lid. for...

Prince of Wales Day In Carlisle

Date: June 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 322

This year the Prince of Wales, K.G., President of the Institution, was pleased to say that, in celebration of the King's Silver Jubilee, all life-boat days should be known as " Prince of Wales Day.". - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

A Rowing Boat

Date: April 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 333

Barra Island, Hebrides.—26th December, 1937. A rowing boat had been overwhelmed in Loch Eynort on the 23rd December, and two of her crew of three had been drowned. The life-boat went out to search for the two bodies, but without...

A Motor Boat

Date: December 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 336

Salcombe, Devon.—6th August, 1938.

A motor boat had been reported missing, but while a search was being made to the westward, the boat returned from the eastward.—Rewards, £9 Is..

Recognition for Boatbuilders

Date: September 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 413

A commemorative vellum has been awarded by the Institution to Messrs.

J. Samuel White & Co. Ltd., who built 134 life-boats for the Institution between 1898 and 1964. Last year the firm ceased building wooden boats at...

Category: Awards

Old

Date: Winter 1978

Volume: 45

Issue: 463

Old... - View image in PDF

(Above) Denmark: When the old lifeboat from Nymindegab, Jutland, returned home to be the principal exhibit in the old lifeboat house, now converted into a museum, her crew were there to meet her.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs