LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Member of the Institution's Staff Killed
A member of the Institution's staff, Mr. Thomas Edgar Langridge, was killed last Christmas morning. He was cycling along a snow-bound road in Wembley, near his home, when he collided with a motor car. Two hours later he died in hospital...
Category: Obituaries
Barry Dock No 2 Lifeboat Launched on September 271975 to Help Storm Eagle a Yacht Being Driven Ashore By a Strong South-Westerly Gale She Got a Line Aboard Just As
Barry Dock No. 2 lifeboat launched on September 27,1975, to help Storm Eagle, a yacht being driven ashore by a strong south-westerly gale. She got a line aboard just as the yacht's anchor rope parted and towed her, with her three crew,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Some of the Guests at the Naming of Ethel Anne Measures
Some of the guests at the naming of Ethel Anne Measures. photograph by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
With the Help of Post Office Telephone
With the help of Post Office Telephone engineers and landowners, some thousands of metres of underground cable have been laid to ins/al an emergency telephone on the popular but isolated Cocklawburn Beach, two miles south of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Fort Vermillion, of London
SEPTEMBER 29TH. - WALMER, KENT.
At 5.59 in the evening the Deal coastguard reported that the S.S. Fort Vermillion, of London, of over 7,000 tons, bound to Middlesbrough from Tangiers, was aground on the Goodwin Sands south...
Statement of the Several Life-Boats Belonging to Or In Connection With the National Life-Boat Institution
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Category: Articles
Statement of the Several Life-Boats Belonging to Or In Connection With the National Life-Boat Institution
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Statement of the Several Life-Boats Belonging to Or In Connection With the National Life-Boat Institution
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The Douglas Hyde, of Rosslare Harbour
ON the 5th of June, 1952, Mrs. Sean O'Kelly, the wife of the President of the Republic of Ireland, named at Wexford the new Rosslare Harbour life-boat, which the committee of management had decided, with the approval of the government of...
Category: Inaugurations
(Below) Coxswain Dermot Walsh of Valentia
(Below) Coxswain Dermot Walsh of Valentia was awarded the silver medal for the rescue of ten men from the motor vessel Oranmore in 1970.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs