LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Matthew Simpson Going to the Help of Steam Drifter Harmony
Lifeboat Matthew Simpson going to the help of steam drifter Harmony.. - View image in PDF
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Massive mission
When a 180m-long cargo vessel beached on a sandbank on 3 January, some crew members were trapped inside while others prepared to abandon ship. What happened next called on the skill and courage of four lifeboat...
Category: Articles
A Fishing Boat (5)
OCTOBER 31ST. - ARRANMORE, CO. DONEGAL. While a small fishing boat was returning from the fishing grounds her engine broke down, and the motor life-boat K.T.J.S.
was launched at 2.30 PM. to help her. A northerly wind was...
Lilian May
Minehead, Somerset.—At 10.35 on the night of the Slst of August, 1951, the Watchet Coastguard Live-saving Company reported that dim flares could be seen off Watchet. Five people were known to have left Barry for Watchet in the motor boat...
London Life-Boat Day. Prince Henry and Sir Godfrey Baring at the Victoria Palace
London Life-Boat Day Prince Henry and Sir Godfrey Baring at The Victoria Palace. - View image in PDF
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Mrs Hutchings and Her Husband on Life-Boat Day at Sennen Cove Cornwall
Mrs. Hutchings and her husband on life-boat day at Sennen Cove, Cornwall.. - View image in PDF
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Coast review
Despite being nearly 188 years old, the lifeboat service never stands still
How do you decide where to locate a lifeboat station and what kind of craft should be housed there? That’s the job of...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At about 2 o'clock on the morning of the 6th January three of the fishing cobles belonging to Flamborough put out to sea. About three hours later, when the boats were five miles from home, the N.N.W. wind...
Category: Services
Bryan and Kathy Cox of Wokingham Branch
Bryan and Kalhv Co.x ofWokingham branch, pictured here with their daughter Rachel, organised a trip on the River Thames aboard this magnificent steam launch St. Belle, the property of the Maidenhead Steam Navigation Company Ltd. Built in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs