LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Boat
APRIL 26TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 2.55 in the morning a message came from the coastguard that a boat was adrift west of Worthing pier, and that no reply had been received to signals. No boats or men were available at Worthing, and...
A Painting By L F Gilding Showing a Lifeboat of the Rhli Ami Tin Raf Lysander Aircraft Arriving to Rescue a 'Ditched' Bomber Crew
A painting by L. F. Gilding showing a lifeboat of the RhLI ami tin RAF Lysander aircraft arriving to rescue a 'ditched' bomber crew..
Category: Drawings
A Motor Fishing Boat (1)
MA R C H 2 2 N D . - B U C K I E , B A N F F - SHIRE. A motor fishing boat had capsized off Portknockie, but three of her crew were drowned and the remaining man was saved by a small boat from the shore. - Rewards, £9 16s. 6d..
A Dinghy
Workington, Cumberland - At 8.39 p.m. on llth September, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that he had received reports of a small boat flashing a white light about one and a half miles off Harrington. The signal appeared...
A Yacht
TWO PEOPLE FOUND ASLEEP IN YACHT Rhyl, Flintshire. At 10.5 on the night of the 12th May, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was anchored between the Welchman and Dee buoys and that there seemed to be no sign of...
A Drifter
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—26th October, 1939. A drifter had been reported as flying distress signals, but she got into the shelter of Douglas Bay unaided.
The life-boat was out for nearly five hours in a gale with a heavy sea.—...
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
Obverse.—An unlaureated head of George the Fourth; beneath, in minute letters, W. Wyon, Mint: double legend, " Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck."—" George the Fourth, Patron, 1824."...
Category: Medals
Here and There
WOLVERHAMPTON has launched an appeal to provide an Atlantic 21 ILB complete with launching tractor, trailer, boathouse, slipway and all operational equipment at Abersoch, North Wales, where many Wolverhampton people, on holiday, take to the...
Category: Articles
Pass-o-Leny
DEC. 1ST. - LYTHAM - ST. ANNE’S, LANCASHIRE, AND NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 8.45 A.M. the Lytham secondcoxswain reported a vessel ashore by Peet’s Light, south of the 12th Mile Beacon. A S.W.
gale was blowing, with a heavy...
Mrs V R Davison Chairman of Sunderland Ladies' Guild 'Fits' a Jersey to William Milburn Coxswain of Sunderland Lifeboat When the Crew Needed New Jerseys the Ladi
Mrs V. R Davison, chairman of Sunderland ladies' guild, 'fits' a jersey to William Milburn, coxswain of Sunderland lifeboat.
When the crew needed new jerseys, the ladies' guild gave tubes of Smarties to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs