LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Foreign Life-Boat Services. II
The United States (State Service.
Established 1848).
Since the publication of our extensive note on this Service in the November issue of The Lifeboat we have received the Annual Report of the U.S....
Category: Services
Porpoise
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 2.35 on the afternoon of the 26th of October, 1957, the life-boat Edian Courtauld left her moorings to attend the ceremony at Clacton of scattering the ashes of the late Coxswain A. C. Potter, of...
The Wasting of the English Coast. (From the Times, 5th October, 1886)
ENGLISHMEN do not, as a rule, realise the perishable and perishing nature of the land on which they live. Although more than fifty years have now elapsed since Sir Charles Lyell collected and emphasised the evidences which showed that the...
Category: Articles
Message from the Director
By the time this letter is published I will have succeeded Rear Admiral Graham as director and secretary of the RNLI.
It is a tremendous honour and a considerable challenge to have been appointed by the committee of...
Category: Articles
The Four Brothers
The ' Life-boat Martha was launched at | 5.30 P.M. to assist the salmon coble, The [ Four Brothers, which was in distress j opposite the village. The boat carried | three hands, who belonged to the Life-! boat crew. When the coble put to...
Today: Preparing for Exercise (L to R) Senior Helmsman Graham Thorburn 'Bengie' Pearson Bob Bryson Jim Pearson Helpers David Cochrane and Tom Brown (Who M
Today: Preparing for exercise. (I. to r.) Senior Helmsman Graham Thorburn, 'Bengie' Pearson, Bob Bryson, Jim Pearson Helpers David Cochrane and Tom Brown (who maintains boat and boathouse in good order) and finally Paddy Hooton..<... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lieut.-Commander P. E. Vaux, D.S.C., R.N. Inspector of Life-Boats for the Irish District. Bronze Medallist
Lieut-Commander P E Vaux DSC RN Inspector of Life-Boats For The Irish District Bronze Medallist. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
In 1923 the Prince Gave His Permission for All Life-Boat Days to Be Known As Prince of Wales Day'
'In 1923 . . . the Prince gave his permission for all life-boat days to be known as Prince of Wales Day.'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Yacht
Broken rudder A YACHT in trouble to the south of the Calf Islands, off the southern Irish coast, was firing red flares. They were sighted and reported to the honorary secretary of Baltimore lifeboat station at 1320 on the afternoon of Friday...
Rescue from a Turkish Steamer
AT 3.10 on the afternoon of the 18th of May, 1955, Coxswain William Cox. of Wells, was told by the coastguard that a message had been received from the S.S. Richmond Queen, of London, that the S.S. Zor, of Istanbul, was in distress six miles...
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