LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Skeleton
All that remained of the Olive a few days later.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pulling Their Weight for the Lifeboat
Many local organisations and clubs in Filey have arranged special fund raising events throughout the year to help fund Filey' s new Mersey class lifeboat, due on station early in 1991. But none can have been more spectacular than the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of ex-Coxswain Stephen Clayson, of Margate, Kent. He served as second coxswain for over seven years, from 1898 to 1905, and then as coxswain for twenty years, retiring in 1925 at the age of seventy-two. During...
Category: Articles
Coxswain Peter Thomson Aboard the White Rose of Yorkshire In Her Pen Moored on Vertical Sliding Moorings With Low Friction Fenders She Rises and Falls With the Tid
Coxswain Peter Thomson aboard The White Rose of Yorkshire in her pen. Moored on vertical sliding moorings, with low friction fenders, she rises and falls with the tide. - View image in PDF
Boarding is by vertical ladder.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Coxswain's Memories of His First Service
Coxswain Edward WicJcham, of Wexford, Co, Wexford, who was Second Coxswain from 1886 to 1899, and Coxswain from 1899 to 1925, and who twice won the Silver Medal of the Institution for gallantry, has written the following account of his first...
Category: Services
OTHER IRB LAUNCHES
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded on lages 120, 130, 134, the following launches on service were made during the months September, October and November, 1969, inclusive: Abersoch,...
Category: Services
A Message Was Received By the Honorary Secretary of Bembridge Lifeboat Station on Saturday July 30 to Say That An Engine Fire Now Extinguished Had Caused Compl
A message was received by the honorary secretary of Bembridge lifeboat station on Saturday, July 30, to say that an engine fire, now extinguished, had caused complete steering loss on a 48' ketch on passage from Poole to Le Havre. A... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
As a Memorial to Motor Mechanic R F 'Bob' Appleby of Filey Who Collapsed and Died on June 23 1974 Just As the Lifeboat Was About to Be Launched on Service Filey Life
As a memorial to Motor Mechanic R. F. 'Bob' Appleby of Filey, who collapsed and died on June 23, 1974, just as the lifeboat was about to be launched on service, Filey lifeboatmen are adding a rest room, changing room and look-out to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Andrew White, of Donaghadee, Co.
Down, Northern Ireland. He has been a member of the crew since the station was established in 1910. In January, 1916, he became bowman, and in ...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Station
THB following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 293 Life-boat Stations...
Category: Articles