LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Soviet Trawler Topaz and French Yacht Campscharles
Three nations THE SOVIET TRAWLER Topaz making for a position off Bournemouth with a French yacht, Campscharles, in tow was reported to HM Coastguard Solent RHQ by Lands End RHQ at 0910 on Thursday,October 14,1976. Two survivors aboard the...
Two Danish Motor Fishing Vessels, The Mary Iversen and The Gadanus
MAY 13TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
At 11.52 in the morning the coastguard reported two Danish motor fishing vessels, the Mary Iversen and the Gadanus, in difficulties on the Inner Middle Sandbank.
A...
Visitors Looking Round the Lobster Holding Tanks at Padstow Are Encouraged to Give to the Rnli Gil Lobb Whose Tanks They Are Is Seen Here Being Presented With a Plaque By Coxswain Trevor E
Visitors looking round the lobster holding tanks at Padstow are encouraged to give to the RNLI. Gil Lobb, whose tanks they are, is seen here being presented with a plaque by Coxswain Trevor England for his efforts, which this year alone, up... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Unveiling of the Memorial
The unveiling of the memorial by his Excellency the Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man, Air Marshal Ian Macfadyen (pictured to the left of sculpture, at the front).
Also pictured (from left to right) is David Cretney... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Lowestoft Life-Boat Rolling In Heavy Seas at the Entrance to Lowestoft Harbour As She Returns to Port After Escorting a Longshore Boat to Safety on 7th October, 1967
The Lowestoft life-boat rolling in heavy seas at the entrance to Lowestoft harbour as she returns to port after escorting a longshore boat to safety on 7th October, 1967.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Zippalong
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 10.25 on the morning of the 1st of August, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Holdernidd had wirelessed that she was towing the motor yacht Zippalong, of Boston, and was making for Cromer. She asked if the life...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
PAKEFIELD.—The Life-boat Two Sis- ters, Mary and Hannah, was launched at 1.30 A.M. on the 9th Jan. last, and pro- ceeded to the assistance of the brigantine Kelpie, of South Shields, bound from Hartlepool for Lowestoft with a cargo of coal,...
Category: Services
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
founded in 1824.—Supported by Voluntary Subscriptions.
PATRONESS.
HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE Queen...
Category: Advertisement
The Humber
THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE On the 12th February, 1940, the Humber life-boat rescued the crew of nine of the steam trawler Gurth, of Grimsby.
COXSWAIN ROBERT CROSS was awarded the gold medal.
MOTOR MECHANIC JOHN...
Category: Medals