LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Four Gallant Services
AT 11.30 on the morning of the 28th August, 1919, during a strong southerly gale with a very heavy sea and thick rain, the Bembridge Life-boat was launched to the help of an American steamer, the s.s. Wakvlla, of Los Angeles, which had...
Category: Services
Two Bronze Medal Services. Hartlepool (Durham) and Selsey and Bognor (Sussex)
Hartlepool (Durham) and Selsey and Bognor (Sussex).
ON the morning of 26th September last a three-masted Danish auxiliary schooner, the-Doris, of Thuro, attempted to enter the harbour at Hartlepool. A strong N.N.E. gale...
Category: Services
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A busy month for St Ives On 21 May 2006, relief Mersey class Royal Shipwright attended the 21m Testerossa, 27 miles north west of St Ives in near-galeforce winds. Sennen Cove's Tyne class Norman Salvesen joined in to achieve 5 knotsto St...
London Life-Boat Day: At Stepney. Mr. Ted Sable (Right) and some of His Helpers
London Life-Boat Day: at Stepney Mr Ted Sable (Right) and some of His Helpers. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
100 Years Ago. Two Gold Medal Services on the Same Day
THE brig Aurora, coal laden, was wrecked near the mouth of the Tees, on the night of the 14th August, 1829, in a heavy gale and tremendous sea ; and the crew, consisting of ten persons, were saved by the intrepid conduct of Lieutenant Pym, R...
Category: Medals
Period Costume Is the Order of the Day at Shaldon Village Old Time Fayre
Period costume is the order of the day at Shaldon village old time fayre in Devon. Branch workers who donned period maritime costume when manning their stall were delighted when their souvenir and lottery sales practically doubled as a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Left) the Medallists Face the Press Cameras at St.Katherine Dock the Day Before the Meetings.
(Left) The medallists face the press cameras at St Katherine Dock the day before the meetings.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Two 'Horrors' Pictured Above Were Snapped at the Lawford Fun Day on 13 June
The two 'horrors' pictured above were snapped at the Lawford Fun Day on 13 June, which was flag dayforthe Mistley and Manningtree Branch in Essex.
During the branch's lifeboat week, £1,458.08 was collected,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
June
Launches 28 Lives rescued 80
JUNE 7TH. - FENIT, CO. KERRY. At two in the morning a message was received that a motor fishing boat, with five men on board, was adrift in Tralee Bay. A fresh to strong south-west-to-west wind...
Category: Services
The Life-boats of Ramsgate and Margate at Dunkirk
EVACUATION OF MEN OF THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE AND THE FRENCH ARMY FROM DUNKIRK.* THE WORK OF THE LIFE-BOATS OF RAMSGATE AND MARGATE.
At 1.15 in the afternoon of Thursday, the 30th of May, 1940, the Ministry of...