LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bridlington Life-Boat and Tractor
Bridlington Life-Boat and Tractor. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Liza, Scheherazade and Golden Venture
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
March
MARCH Launches 87. Lives rescued 109.
MARCH 1ST. - WELLS, NORFOLK. At 12.55 P.M. the coastguard reported a ship’s boat adrift about two miles N.N.W. of their lookout. A moderate easterly wind was blowing, with a moderate...
Category: Services
Visitors from Abroad
A DANISH mission, headed by Mr. C.
C. F. Langseth, Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Danish Ministry of Defence, visited England from the 27th to the 30th of July to study British life-boats. The mission watched launches by...
Category: Articles
Right: Hfth the Duke of Kent Visits Conwy Lifeboat Station
Right: HftH The Duke of Kent visits Conwy lifeboat station and is pictured with some of the crew members, together with station honorary secretary Keith Robinson (far right). - View image in PDF
© Karl Roberts. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter
AT a press conference held in London on 24th October, Commander F. R. H. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R., Chairman of the R.N.L.I., announced a colourful programme of events to celebrate in 1974 the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the R.N.L.I...
Category: Articles
Viking and Loch Maree
AUG. 9TH. - MINEHEAD, SOMERSET.
During the evening a message was received from the Hurlestone Point coastguard that the motor yacht Viking was on fire six miles north of Porlock Weir and that the motor yacht Loch Maree, of...
Felicity and Winifred
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—At 6.22 in the evening of the 12th of September, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that the local fishing vessel Felicity was over- due. At 8 o'clock he reported that she could be seen broken down two miles...
AYacht and a Dinghy
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 5.15 p.m. on gth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a small yacht was hi difficulties in the Rock Channel.
The life-boat Norman B. Corlett proceeded at 5.20 in a near gale from...
An Aeroplane (38)
NOVEMBER 18TH.. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 11.27 at night the coastguard reported that a fire had been seen nine to ten miles north-west of Kinnaird Head. A light wind was blowing, with a moderate sea, and the night was dark. The motor...