LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Gallant Rescue In the Moray Firth
ON the morning of 27th January, 1937, the Russian steamer Kingissepp, of Leningrad, was anchored about a mile off the harbour of Nairn on the Moray Firth. An easterly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. A boat was seen to put off from the...
Category: Services
The Prince's Appeal to Shipping. The First Response: Gift of Three Motor Life-Boats
FOUR of the leading shipping companies have responded to the appeal on behalf of the Life-boat Service which the Prince of Wales made to shipping in his presidential address at the Annual Meeting of the Institution last...
Category: Articles
Brian Sockett Is Taking a Bath Around the Racing Circuit at Lydden Kent the Person Powered Push Which Entailed People from the Dover Area Pulling Or Pushing Peculiar Articles Around the Circui
Brian Socket! is taking a bath around the racing circuit at Lydden, Kent. The Person Powered Push which entailed people from the Dover area pulling or pushing peculiar articles around the circuit brought in £1,098.60 for the lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Motor Fishing Coble Hilda (1)
Scarborough, and Filey, Yorkshire.—At 6.10 in the evening of the 17th of January, 1949, the Scarborough coast- guard reported to the life-boat station that anxiety was felt for the safety of the local motor fishing coble Hilda which had left...
A Challenge to Branches. The Record of the Poole and Bournemouth Committee
The Record of the Poole and Bournemouth Committee.
IN the article in the last issue of The Lifeboat on the Life-boat Station at : Appledore, which celebrated its centenary last summer, was given the re-markable record of...
Category: Branches
February
Launches 34. Lives rescued 55.
FEBRUARY 5 T H . - CROMARTY. At 6.25 A.M. the Burghead coastguard reported distress signals from a vessel aground one mile west of Findhorn, and the motor life-boat James Macfee was launched...
Category: Services
The Three Mastered Schooner Guilia, of Palemo
On the 10th Oc- tober a three-masted schooner was seen at the entrance to the River Tay with a signal of distress flying, the wind blowing a. gale from S.E., with a high sea running. The steam-tug Sampson being sent from Dundee to her aid,...
Four More Lifeboats for the Rnlis Miniature
Four more lifeboats for the RNLis miniature collection were presented to Ravmond Baxter bv Brian Williams fr) at Earls Court. Made bv Mr Williams, thev are the gift of Mr and Mrs R. Phillips of Salcombe.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs