LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Eight Robsons
The eight members of the family at present in the crew of the North Sunderland life-boat.
In the centre Coxswain James Robson. An article on the work of four generations of lifeboat Robsons appeared in the last number of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Ocean Wave
GREAT YARMOUTH.—A schooner, whichproved to be the Ocean Wave, of Fowey, coal laden, from Shields for Plymouth, was seen stranded on the Scroby Sand in thick weather on the 5th May. At 6.50 p.m. the Life-boat John Surch proceeded to her...
The Suction Dredger Porteur
The motor Life-boat Charterhouse was called out during a whole N.N.W. gale and very heavy sea on the 21st October, to the assistance of the suction-dredger Porteur, of London, which had been at anchor in Fishguai'd Harbour, but was cast...
Children Test Their Speedway Skills on Mini Motor Bikes at One of the Sideshows at Tynemouth's Harbour
Children test their speedway skills on mini motor bikes at one of the sideshows at Tynemouth's harbour spectacular that took place on the afternoon and evening of the royal wedding day last July: it was attended by 15,000... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Annual Meetings 1982
The 168th Annual General Meeting of the RNLI was held in what has become its traditional venue - the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's South Bank - on the morning of Tuesday 19 May, 1992. The weather, however, was far from the traditional...
Category: Meetings
Notes of the Quarter
WITH THE placing of an order for two new steel life-boats, the first of their kind, the R.N.L.I.'s major programme of new construction has been significantly advanced. The two new boats, which are each 50 feet in length, are being built...
Category: Articles
The Passenger Boat Dale Princess
Passengeryessel on Tee shore in tiny cove During a six-hour service in gale force winds Angle's Tyne class lifeboat The Lady Rank was able to snatch a disabled passenger boat from the foot of 80ft cliffs, saving the lives of the four...
The Humber Lightvessel
POLICE PUT ABOARD Hiunber, Yorkshire. At 12.39 p.m. on i3th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a man was missing from the Humber lightvessel and that the master of the lightvessel had asked for the help of...
Cycles at the Ready:
Cycles at the ready: I to r, postman, Mr Semple, Jim Berry, Walton and Frinton lifeboat mechanic, Keith Richardson, assistant mechanic, Coxswain Dennis Finch and chairman of the ladies' guild, Mrs Robertson.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fifty Medals for Gallantry (13)
On the 7th-8th December, 1939, the Salcombe life-boat rescued the sixty-two survivors of the S.S. Tajandoen, of Amsterdam, from the S.S. Louis Shied, of Antwerp, which had gone ashore after picking up survivors of the Tajandoen, sunk by...
Category: Articles