LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Three Stages In the Service By the Dungeness Life-Boat In June, 1966, to the Sloop Idle Moment After She Had Spent An Anxious Night Riding Out a Storm—
Three stages in the service by the Dungeness life-boat in June, 1966, to the sloop Idle Moment after she had spent an anxious night riding out a storm—the life-boat alongside the sloop, the sloop safe in Folkestone harbour, and Coxswain T. R... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter
SOME astounding figures have been recorded of the services of life-boats in 1961. The month of August this year was, for instance, by far the busiest month the service has ever known since it was founded 137 years ago. During the month...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Conferences. Midlands: London: Dumfries
LIFE-BOAT Week at Bristol this year included a most successful and well organised Life-boat Day on Thursday, 16th June, and an assembly from 11 Branches in the Midlands District for a Conference which was held on Saturday, 18th June. In...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
MUTUAL AID OFF PORTLAND FOLLOWING the sighting at about 10 p.m. on 4th February, 1972, by the gas tanker Methane Princess of a small vessel firing distress flares off Portland Bill, the Weymouth, Dorset, life-boat was prepared for launching....
Category: Services
Tenby 46' 9" Watson Lifeboat Henry Comber Brown Launched on February 27 In Gale Force Winds and a Very Rough Sea to Bring a Man from Caldy Island for Compassi
Tenby 46' 9" Watson lifeboat Henry Comber Brown launched on February 27 in gale force winds and a very rough sea to bring a man from Caldy Island for compassionate reasons.
photograph by courtesy of R.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Oranmore
Baltimore, Co. Cork. At 8.30 a.m. on 6th October, 1963, Valentia Radio told the honorary secretary that one of the crew of the m.v. Oranmore had been seriously injured following a collision between the m.v. Oranmore and the m.v.
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Blue Peter Presenter Konnie Huq Takes a Trip on Blue Peter 1 With the Littlehampton Crew
Slue Peter presenter Konnie Huq takes a trip on Blut Peter 1 with the Uttlehampton crew. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Steamer (21)
JULY 4TH . - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
A steamer had been bombed and sunk, four of her crew being killed, but the seven survivors, three badly wounded, were picked up by a patrol boat. - Rewards, £5 18s..
Achilles
Three saved from disabled fishing vessel in gale and severe seasLerwick lifeboat left her moorings at 0500 on Friday 4 November 1994, a little over ten minutes after first hearing from Shetland coastguard that the fishing vessel Achilles had...
An Aeroplane (21)
JULY 9TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.
An aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but only oil was found. - Rewards, £11 5s. 6d..