LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Saint Ronan (1)
Dover, and Walmer, Kent. At 7.12 on the morning of the llth of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Dover that two vessels had been in collision near the South Goodwin lightvessel. At 7.31 the coastguard reported...
The Meeting of the General Council of the Ladies' Life-Boat Guild
The Lady Florence Pery (Hon. Secretary of the Guild), the Duchess of Sutherland (President of the Guild), the Prince of Wales (President of the Institution), the Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (Patron of the Guild).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sailing Boat Hilda Kate
TOW FOR BOAT BECALMED Weymouth, Dorset. At 1.40 early on the morning of the 5th August, 1962, the police informed the honorary secretary that a sailing boat with a boy and girl on board was overdue, and at two o'clock the life-boat Frank...
Prince Edward at the Helm:
Prince Edward at the helm: Prince Edward paid a private visit to Hunstanton lifeboat station on January 7, while on holiday at Sandringham. The Prince, who is training to be an officer in the Royal Marines, took the helm of the station's... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Converted Ship's Boat Samartha
Teesmouth, Yorkshire. At 11.20 on the morning of the 18th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a flare had been seen off Redcar. A fresh south-westerly wind was blowing with a moderate sea. At 12.5 the life-boat...
The Lizzie Male, of Padstow
NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.—At daybreak on the 29th January the Lizzie Male, of Padstow, bound from Swansea to Fecamp, was observed riding at anchor, dismasted, and with a distress signal flying. She was off Towan Head, four miles from the Life-boat...
(Left) the Lifeboat the First Fibre Reinforced Composite Boat to Enter Rnli Service Alongside the Depot Quay for the Ceremony
(left) The lifeboat, the first fibre reinforced composite boat to enter RNLI service, alongside the depot quay for the ceremony. - View image in PDF
(photos courtesy Jeff Morris). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fig I: the Forefoot of the Stem Has a Fine
Fig. I: The forefoot of the stem has a fine entry. Ruffle holes are built into the skeg through which preventer chains are passed to hold the lifeboat, when at rest, on her slipway.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Recent Experiments at the South Foreland With Lighthouse Illuminants
THE experiments -with lighthouse illu- minants -which have been in progress at the South Foreland for twelve months, under a Committee of the Elder Brethren of the Trinity House, were brought to a conclusion in March last, and the Report was...
Category: Articles
The Danish Steamer Ellensborg
JANUARY 31ST. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. The Danish steamer Ellensborg, of Copenhagen, had been mined or torpedoed eighteen miles N.E. of Kinnaird Head, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £18 2s. 9d.