LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dismissal of a Life-Boat Crew
IT will be remembered by our Readers that on I the 25th November last the crew of the East- bourne Life-boat performed a very meritorious service. We are alluding to the rescue, under exceptionally trying circumstances, of the crew...
Category: Articles
The Sand Hopper Seastone
HOPPER ON FIRE Selsey, Sussex. At 8.43 a.m. on 27th May, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the sand hopper Seastone of London had sent a distress message from a position two miles west of the Owers lightvessel,...
The S.S. Waesland (1)
NORTH DEAL AND WALMER.—On the night of the 4th March the Deal Life-boat Mary Somerville, and the Walmer Lifeboat Civil Service No. 4, were launched to the assistance of the s.s.' Waesland, of and for Antwerp, from New York, with a...
The S.S. Antonio
The Life-boat John was launched at 4.40 A.M. on the 14th February, and rescued the crew of twenty-four of the s.s. Antonio, of Bilbao. The vessel had stranded on the North Rock and, when the Life- boat reached her, it was hoped that it would...
The S.S. Orkney Trader
Buckie, Banffshire. At 9.30 on the morning of the 5th of February, 1958, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the S.S. Orkney Trader, of Kirk- wall, was in danger of driving ashore two and a half miles north of Buckie.
Picking the Winners
Picking the winners - (from left to right} John Murray. John Marjoram, Peter Macgregor. David Johnstone, Bill Home, Donald Maclssaac, Michael MacNeil. John Gaughan joined by RNLI marketing manager, David Brann.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pinnace of the Sea Cadets
Troon, Ayrshire. — At 6.30 in the evening of the 2nd of May, 1948, the pilot house telephoned that the steam pinnace of the Sea Cadets appeared to have broken down and was drifting towards the Black Rocks. The motor life-boat Sir...
News from the Branches
Award* to Honorary Workers.
SINCE the last number of The Life-Boat was published, the following presenta- tions/have been made to Honorary, Secretaries of Branches and to other honorary workers in recognition of their*...
Category: Branches
The Filey IRB Crew—An Irb Station Was Established There In 1966—Consists of a Bank Manager a Cafe Proprietor and a Joiner When This Photograph As Taken the Irb An
The Filey IRB crew—an IRB station was established there in 1966—consists of a bank manager, a cafe proprietor and a joiner. When this photograph as taken the IRB and the local life-boat had returned from the successful rescue of two youths... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Blackwater Lightvessel
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—On the 28th of February, 1954, the Com- missioners of Irish Lights asked if the life-boat would land a sick man from the Blackwater lightvessel. The Com- missioners had no boat available, and at 4.15 in the...