LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
THE SALCOMBE LIFEBOAT DISASTER
Friday 27 October 1916 started with a rescue and ended in tragedy – one of the worst in RNLI history. It is a story of courage,
sacrifice and loss. 100 years on, a lifeboat town remembers the crew who never came home
Category: Articles
Hearing on Sunday July 25 That Mfv Mary Sue of Dublin With Five People on Board Had Engine Failure One Mile South of Puffin Island and Needed Help Valentia's 52' Bar
Hearing, on Sunday, July 25, that MFV Mary Sue of Dublin, with five people on board, had engine failure one mile south of Puffin Island and needed help, Valentia's 52' Barnett lifeboat, Rowland Watts, slipped her moorings at 1820 and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Destined for Life-Boat Stations All Over the U.K., the First Ever Delivery of Martell Cognac Was Recently Received at the R.N.L.I. Depot at Borehamwood,
Destined for life-boat stations all over the U.K., the first ever delivery of Martell cognac was recently received at the R.N.L.I. Depot at Borehamwood, Herts. Taken in the depot's rigging loft, the picture shows (left to right)... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
M.V. Futurity and Little Slam (1)
Collision A COLLISION IN DENSE FOG between MV Futurity and the motorboat Little Slam some three miles south east of Littlehampton was reported to the honorary secretary of Shoreham Harbour lifeboat station at 1510 on Saturday May 12, 1979....
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Acteon
Dover, Kent.—At 3.10 on the after- noon of the 13th of July, 1952, the Sandgate coastguard reported that a yacht was making heavy weather about a mile south-east of Leather- cotes. The life-boat Southern Africa was launched at 4.15 in a...
Humber: Assistant Mechanic Ronald Sayers (R) and Crew Member Sydney Rollinson Tow Water Bowser Past Spot Where Road to Spurn Point Was Breached Piles Now
Humber: Assistant Mechanic Ronald Sayers (r.) and Crew Member Sydney Rollinson tow water bowser past spot where road to Spurn Point was breached. Piles now standing some 10 to 12 feet proud of sand were previously almost... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pictured Doing a Spot of 'Panic Buying' After Completing the Service to the Greek Tanker Kithnos Are Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan (Fourth Right) and Other Member
Pictured doing a spot of 'panic buying' after completing the service to the Greek tanker Kithnos are Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan (fourth right) and other members of the Humber crew. photograph by courtesy of Grimsby Evening... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Royal Visits
Top) HRH The Duchess of Kent talks to crew and station personnel at Pwllheli lifeboat station during her tour. - View image in PDF
Photo Peter Westley Photography. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs