LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Another Record Year for the Life-Boats
BOAT OWNERS were told the truth about salvage claims by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., at the annual meeting of the Institution at Central Hall, Westminster, on 9th April, 1967. He said it...
Category: Articles
Diadem, of Southampton
SEPTEMBER 20TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. About 5.45 in the afternoon the harbour master reported a yacht burning red flares in Yarmouth Roads. A strong north-westerly gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The motor life-boat S.G.E. was...
John, of Hartlepool
The Thomas Wilson life-boat also went out three times to the brig John, of Hartlepool, which had gone ashore at Cape Kerr Point; and on the last occasion was tile means of rescuing the master, who had remained on board helpless after his...
Sea Ker, of Bideford
Clovelly, Devon-At 10.50 p.m. on 16th June, 1968, it was learnt that acabin cruiser from Bideford was fogbound in Barnstaple bay. Twenty minutes later the coastguard requested the assistance of the life-boat to search for the boat. The...
On the Beach
During the night of 18/19 March 1988 a 25ft Jaguar class yacht, on passage from Ramsgate to Gillingham ran aground in strong winds, fog and driving rain at Jury's Gap, Camber.
Rye's C class inflatable The Lewes... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Above) Alan Jones, Coxswain of the Mumbles Lifeboat Draws the Winning Ticket for the Wales and West Mercia Region Watched By David Steel, Director of Volvo
(above) Alan Jones, coxswain of The Mumbles lifeboat draws the winning ticket for the Wales and West Mercia Region watched by David Steel, director of Volvo agents FRF Motors.. - View image in PDF
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Rob Roy of Sunderland
On the night of the 12th January the steam-tug Hob Boy, of Sunderlaud, ran ashore on Whitburn rocks. On the alarm being given, the Whitburn life-boat was promptly launched through a high surf, and succeeded in rescuing her crew of 4 men and...
Wreck Chart of the British Isles for the Year 1912-13
To aaaompany the Life Boat Journal.
WRECK CHART OF THE BRITISH ISLES FOR THE YEAR 1912-13.
(Compiled from the Board of Trade Wreck Register), Showing the Wrecks and serious Casualties. Also the Lifeboat...
Category: Charts
The First Ever Child of Two Ex-Lifeboat Crew Members:
The first ever child of two ex-lifeboat crew members: Andrew James Louis Mitchell with his parents, David and Marjorie, on the day of his christening which was held, naturally enough, aboard Aberdeen's 54ft Arun class lifeboat BP Forties... - View image in PDF
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Widgeon, of Rosslare
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wezford. — At 7.55 in the evening of the 13th of July, 1949, the Civic Guard at Rosslare Strand reported that a pleasure boat under sail, with a crew of five, had cap- sized about seven hundred yards from the...