LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sabine, of Onway
Beaumaris, Anglesey - At 8.50 a.m.
on 1st November, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties in Conway Bay. The lifeboat Field Marshal and Mrs Smuts was launched at...
St Michael, of Harve
On the 18th September, the brig St. Michael, of Havre, was observed to anchor on the Crusader Sandbank, the tide being high at the time.
The wind was blowing very strong from W.S.W., with a high sea on. The Black- pool new...
Tilbury Tubbies' (With One 'Tubby' Sitting In the Tub) of Tilbury Construction Ltd Convey Island
'Tilbury Tubbies' (with one 'Tubby' sitting in the tub), of Tilbury Construction Ltd, Convey Island, raised £157.50 for the lifeboat service in a charily bath pull along Southend sea front.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
William of, Londonderry
On the 1st March the brigantine William, of Londonderry, was seen driving into Dun- drum Bay, during a strong S.S.E. wind.
She had her foremast carried away by the deck, and was waterlogged. The Life-boat Reigate was...
New Ways of Raising Money
Mr. J. L. Tillett, a leading member of the Norwich Round Table (which paid for the IRB at Happisburgh) is a jeweller by trade. He made some delightful miniature badges depicting a life-boat, in gold and colour, which were sold at the Norfolk...
Category: Donations
The Long Tow
WHEN THE new Gorleston 44-foot steel life-boat Khami on 5th September, 1967» went to the aid of the m.v. Aureity, whose steering gear had broken down, no one knew then that the life-boat would end up by towing the auxiliary cutter...
Category: Services
Century Life-Boat Day: The Coxswains of Walton-On-The-Naze and Ramsgate Collecting In Trafalgar Square
Century Life-Boat Day: The Coxswains of Walton-On-The-Naze and Ramsgate Collecting In Trafalgar Square. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Zem Zem, of London
JULY 18TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX.
As soon as the motor life-boat J. B.
Proudfoot, on temporary duty at the station, returned at 4.40 in the afternoon, after towing the boat Harriett into...
City of Dublin
TOWED BY TANKER At 11.40 a.m. on 6th September, 1964, the coxswain was informed that a tanker had taken a drifting yacht in tow two miles east of Greystones. The two members of her crew had been taken aboard while, with the yacht in tow, the...
Puffin, of Rochester
FEBRUARY 1ST. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 12.24 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that red flares had been seen four miles south-west-by-west of Clacton pier, and half an hour later the motor lifeboat Edward Z. Dresden was...