LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (81)
AUGUST 11TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. A Hurricane aeroplane was reported to have crashed in the sea five miles west of Selsey Bill, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £6 3s. 6d.
An Aeroplane (183)
NOVEMBER 17TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. A German aeroplane had been reported down in the sea five miles south of Brighton, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £11 13s. 3d..
The S.S. Blair Devon, of Glasgow
FEBRUARY 23RD. - TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE.
At 12.15 in the afternoon the South Gare Lighthouse telephoned that a vessel was in difficulties 200 yards north-east of the lighthouse. A northerly gale was blowing and the sea was...
(Right) Cyril Watts With His Wife Rita on Board Centaur 731 Eilean Sitheil In Which Last Summer He Completed a Sponsored Circumnavigation of Britain Starting from the Br
(Right) Cyril Watts, with his wife Rita, on board Centaur 731, Eilean Sitheil, in which last summer he completed a sponsored circumnavigation of Britain, starting from the Bristol Channel; he expects to raise £1,000 for the RNLI. Mr... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The French Ketch St. Michael
Exmouth, Devonshire.—On the morning of the 21st January the coastguard telephoned that the Lyme Regis harbour- master had reported a vessel apparently adrift from her moorings.
He later reported that she had anchored off...
When the Duke of Atholl a Deputy Chairman of the Institution Visited Workington Last Year He Met Members of the Crew and Also Officers and Members of Both Workin
When the Duke of Atholl, a deputy chairman of the Institution, visited Workington last year he met members of the crew and also officers and members of both Workington and Maryport ladies' guilds. He presented the silver badge to the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lady Ann, of Derby
LADY AXN, J.P., of Derby, who died on 17th January, at the age of eighty, had been a very great friend of the life-boat service for many years. She started her work for it in 1898, in the days of the Life-boat Saturday Fund, and in 1911,...
Category: Obituaries
The Launch St. Patrick and The Dredger Teardach
LIFE-BOAT OUT FOR 17 HOURS Galway Bay, Co. Galway. At 11.10 on the evening of Thursday the 29th of August, 1963, the honorary secretary received a telephone message from the harbour master at Galway that the 35-foot launch St. Patrick of...
The Passenger Ferry Laerling
Thirty one passengers rescued from ferry aground on rocks The Chairman of the the Institution, Michael Vernon, has written to the coxswain and crew of the Lerwick lifeboat after the rescue of 31 passengers, mostly elderly, from a stranded...
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles