LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Our President's New Office. Master of the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleets
By George F. Shee, M.A., ALL who are connected in any way with the Life-boat Service will have read with special pleasure the announcement which was made on 14th February, that the King had decided to make a personal link between the...
Category: Articles
The Sumner Life-Boat and Life-Brigade at Sumner, New Zealand
The Sumner Life-Boat and Life-Brigade at Sumner New Zealand. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat, Life-Boathouse and Slipway at Saint Jean-De-Luz (Basses-Pyrenees)
Life-Boat Life-Boathouse and Slipway at Saint Jean-De-Luz (Basses-Pyrenees). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Passages of Life-Boats In the Gales. Port Patrick, Troon, and Moelfre
THREE new Motor Life-boats which left the building yard at Cowes for their Stations during the gales—the 40-feet Watson Life-boats for Port Patrick (Wigtownshire), Troon (Ayrshire) and Moelfre (Anglesey)—were subjected to as severe a test as...
Category: Articles
Two Naming Ceremonies In Scotland. Aith, Shetlands, and Broughty Ferry, Dundee
Aith, Shetland*, and Droughty Ferry, Dundee.
Two naming ceremonies of new motor life-boats took place in Scotland during September, at Aith in the Shetlands and Broughty Ferry, Dundee. Both life- boats were the gifts of...
Category: Inaugurations
A Rescue—Described By the Rescued. The Yacht Gull and the Shoreham Harbour Life-Boat
ON the 8th of August of last year the Shoreham Harbour Life-boat went out in a strong south-westerly gale to a yacht which could be seen three miles out at sea, and pursued her for twelve miles along the coast as she drove before the gale....
Category: Services
Success II, Faith Star,Pilot Me II,Provider A and Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 24th of November, 1952, the coastguard reported that the local fishing boat Success II was mak- ing for Whitby in a heavy sea with a strong north-north-west wind. The No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann...
The New Brighton Service to the Progress and the Loch Ranza Castle
The New Brighton Service To The Progress and The Loch Ranza Castle. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Blogg and the Skipper of the Barge, Captain Joseph Hemstead
Coxswain Blogg and The Skipper of the Barge Captain Joseph Hemstead. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rosemary, The Premier, The Betty, The Rachel and four more Boats
SEVERAL COBLES ESCORTED IN ROUGH SEA Scarborough, Yorkshire. During the early morning of the 16th January, 1963, the easterly wind increased to gale force and anxiety was felt for the safety of six local fishing boats which were still at sea...