LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Right: Children Get Into the Spirit of the Occasion
Right: Children get into the spirit of the occasion with fancy dress at Lough Swilly's station open day in 2001. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Dutch Training Ship Eendraht
Dutch Training Ship aground near Newhaven Newhaven's Arun was called out in a south-westerly gale on 21 October when the Dutch Training Ship Eendraht went aground off Newhaven as she was leaving the harbour.
The...
a Summer Afternoon Strawberry Tea at the Home of Mrs Doreen Beste Honorary Treasurer of Coventry Ladies' Guild Raised £100
A summer afternoon strawberry tea at the home of Mrs Doreen Beste, honorary treasurer of Coventry ladies' guild, raised £100.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Large Screw Steamer Quantock
WINTERTON.—At the termination of a very heavy snowstorm at about 5 P.M. on the 25th January a light and rockets were shown by a vessel which had stranded on the beach about three-quarters of a mile S. of the light-house. The No. 1 Life-boat...
The Ex-Naval Drifter Bountiful
IN DANGER OF CAPSIZING Ramsgate, Kent.-—At 7.10 in the evening of the 5th of July, 1947, it was reported that a vessel had grounded on Quern Shoal. The tide was ebbing, the vessel was listing dangerously, and at 7.20 the motor life-boat...
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...
Category: Articles
Delarue Ile Molene. Kerloch St. Pierre Penmarc'h. Lepretre Gravelines. Coxswains of Life-Boats of the French Society Decorated In 1922 With the Legion of Honour
Coxswains of Life-boats of the French Society decorated in 1922 with the Legion of Honour.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Appeal for the Sailor
YOU, who dwell in homes of comfort, Circled by the friends you prize ; Don't forget the vessels tossing, Can't you hear the Sailor's cries ? Cries for help, where no one hears him, Cries for mercy from above, Can't...
Category: Poetry
Frank Kilroy. In His Other Role As Curator of the Lytham Lifeboat Museum
Frank Kilroy. in his other role as curator of the Lytham lifeboat museum, explains to HRH The Duke of Kent about the display of artefacts from the wreck of the Mexico. - View image in PDF
Picture: Peier Owen/Creative. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Trinity House Vessel Mermaid
TOOK PROVISIONS Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 11.30 a.m. on 4th April, 1964, the superintendent of the Trinity House Depot at Great Yarmouth asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would take out provisions to the Trinity...