LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
During a Visit to the Shipyard of Brooke Marine Ltd., Lowestoft, the Duke of Edinburgh Inspected Two of the R.N.L.I.'s 44-Foot Steel Life-Boats Which Were Then Nearing Completion
During a visit to the shipyard of Brooke Marine Ltd., Lowestoft, the Duke of Edinburgh inspected two of the R.N.L.I.'s 44-foot steel life-boats which were then Hearing completion. Pictured with the Duke is Mr. Harry L. Dowsett (right),... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Winston Churchill
IN January, 1948, the latest life-boat provided by the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, a 46-feet Watson cabin boat, went to Blyth in Northumberland.
She is one of eight Civil Service motor life-boats now in the fleet. Since...
Category: Inaugurations
New Members of the Committee of Management
Brigadier J. W. G. Gow, O.B.E., D.L.; Commander the Hon. Greville Howard, M.P.; Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Murray Longmore, G.C.B. and Com- mander, F. R. H. Swann, R.N.V.R.
(Retd.) have accepted co-option to the Committee...
Category: Committee
Mr Calum Macdonald Former Coxswain of the Stornoway Lifeboat Was One of Three People to Receive the Freedom of the Burgh of Stornoway at the Ceremony
Mr Calum Macdonald Former Coxswain of the Stornoway Lifeboat Was One of Three People To Receive The Freedom of the Burgh of Stornoway at The Ceremony Before A. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The 42' Belgian Sloop Colombe
Belgian sloop aground LYMINGTON ILB STATION deputy launching authority received a telephone message at 2035 on Friday, November11, 1977, from HM Coastguard Needles saying that the 42' Belgian sloop Colombe had called on her RT to say...
The Work Boat Gille Brighde
Crew rescue man trapped in capsized fishing vessel James McPhee, the coxswain of Campbeltown lifeboat, has been awarded the Thanks of the RNLI inscribed on Vellum following a service to the work boat Gille Brighde, when she capsized on 29...
The S.S. G. MacLaren
FEBRUARY 8TH. - PORTASKAIG ARGYLLSHIRE. At 4.35 A.M. the Southend coastguard informed the life-boat station that a vessel was in distress south of Colonsay.
A strong southerly wind was blowing, and it was dark and foggy....
The Italin Brig Sori
Earlier in the year, on the 7th January, the Kingsdowne and North Deal Life- boats had also been enabled to render somewhat similar service to the Italian brig Sori, except that in this instance the vessel, laden with linseed, was found on...
A Schooner The Prospect, of Berwick on Tweed
On the 1st Jtntnays 1861, another dchot«er, th* Prospeet, of Berwick-on- f weed, laden with colds; wifll ft crew of Sii Sse'fi, wta observed at anfeiof & the' Cio^uet Roads, apparently in a sinking state* and close to the...
The S.S. Ida
The s.s. Ida, of Haugesand, on the 27th March, stranded on the Haisborough Sands, whilst bound from Newcastle to Rouen with a cargo of coal. A message was received from the Haisborough Light-vessel, reporting the casualty at about 6.15...