LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Harbour Tug Barkis
Capsized tug PILOT CUTTER COXSWAIN Michael Knott was in Lowestoft Bridge Control station when, at 0825 on Monday, August 16, 1976, a radio message was heard on Channel 16 VHP that the harbour tug Barkis had...
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
September Meeting.
Torbay, Devon.—At about 6 P.M. on the 12th June, 1939, a sailing dinghy capsized in Fishcombe Bay. The weather was fine with a N.W. breeze and an almost smooth sea. The crew of three were seen clinging to...
Category: Services
The Sailing Boat Ranwara
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 3rd of June, 1956the Polruan coastguard reported that a sailing boat moored off Portscatho seemed to be dragging her anchor. As the weather conditions were bad the life-boat Cunard,...
The Engine-Room
The two 40-h.p. Diesel engines on board the Violet Armstrong, the 46-feet Watson cabin motor life-boat, stationed at Appledore, North Devon, in 1938. The big black pipes are the exhaust! running up to the funnel.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 6th Aug. 1857. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., V.P., F.R.S., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
The German Ship Sunnanhav
Loss of power A GERMAN SHIP, Sunnanhav, broken down eight miles north east of Flamborough Head, was reported to the honorary secretary of Bridlington lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 0900 on Thursday February 15. She was being...
The Old Warship Cyclops
OLD WARSHIP ADRIFT Holynead, Anglesey.—At 9.5 in the morning of the 24th of March, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that an SOS had been picked up by Seaforth and Plymouth Wireless Stations giving a bearing six miles south-west of...
The Oldest Collector?
The oldest collector? Mr Frank Gay, aged 102, is a keen supporter of the RNLI and has been collecting at his block of flats in Liss, Hampshire for the past 12 years. A master baker, he was still baking and icing cakes for friends and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Farne Islands
This photograph was taken from the Longstone Lighthouse itself and the big rock on the right is the Harker where the Forfarshire was wrecked. In the middle can be seen the old lighthouse on Brownsman Island where Grace Darling lived until... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Liverpool Ball
H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES, E.G., President of the Institution, attended a Life-boat Ball which was organized by the Port of Liverpool and District Branch and held at the Adelphi Hotel on 4th November. During the day the Prince had visited...
Category: Articles