LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
REMEMBERING PRINCESS VICTORIA
31 January 1953. A storm is building that will cause one of the UK’s worst natural disasters. Despite the gale warnings, at 7.45am the British Railways ferry Princess Victoria begins her regular passage across the Irish Sea. She will never...
Category: Articles
Dollard (1)
Silver service at Cleethorpes and NumberIt is a rare occasion that Cleethorpes and Number crews work together on shouts. Only 5 miles apart as the crow flies, the two stations couldn't be more different.
Cleethorpes...
Pull Out
Pull out RNLI AGM and APA An invitation to all supporters It has been another busy year for the RNLI. Supporters can re? ect on the events of 2007 at the RNLI’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Annual Presentation of Awards (APA) at the...
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Seven-Year-Old Neil West
Seven-year-old Neil West, of Ravensheud, proudly displays the "Jiin'/l Fix It" budge and Storm Force certificate he received after appearing on Jimmy Savile's popular BBC television programme. Neil wrote to the programme... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Right) from Lifeboat Crew to Helicopter Crew: Presentation of 150th Anniversary Commemorative Mugs During Joint Exercise of Wells Lifeboat and Raf Coltishall Helicopter
(Right) From lifeboat crew to helicopter crew: presentation of 150th anniversary commemorative mugs during joint exercise of Wells lifeboat and RAF Coltishall helicopters.
More than 20,000 of these anniversary mugs made by... - View image in PDF
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Services of Life-Boats
Cullercoats, Northumberland. -— On the 24th August last, a fishing-lugger, belong- ing to Sunderland, having struck on a sunken anchor, became disabled, and drove amongst the rocks oft' Cullercoats Harbour, the wind blowing strong from...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—Early on the morning of the 7th April, 1866, signals of distress were seen by the beachmen in the direction of the Cockle Sand. The weather was hazy, with a strong breeze blowing from E.N.E.
The...
Category: Services
Zephyr
Plymouth, Devon.—At 6.46 on the evening of the 10th of May, 1953, the Yealm coastguard rang up to say that the owner of the fifteen-feet sailing dinghy Zephyr had reported that two men who had hired the dinghy that afternoon had last been...
Staatsrath von Brock
PETERHEAD.—On the morning of the 9th January, a mounted messenger gave information at the Life-boat Station that a vessel was ashore on Scotstown Head, about five or six miles N. of Peterhead.
The Life-boat temporarily...
New Ways of Raising Money
King Edward's School, Birmingham, has a voluntary ink fund in charge of the geography master. Early this year the school sent the Institution a postal order for us. 6d. - the ink fund takings over a period of several...
Category: Donations