LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Chips Off the Old Block
Chips off the old block THE To celebrate 35 years in the fish and chip business, proprietors of the Round 'O' Fish Bar in Arbroath, Tony and Elaine Atkinson, offered customers a half price meal for a day and donated the takings of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Stellar
FRENCH YACHT FOUND BY EQUIPMENT Swanage, Dorset. At 8.5 on the morning of the 4th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the French yacht Stellar's engine had broken down twenty miles off Poole and the yacht...
Bridlington Lifeboat the 37' Oakley William Henry and Mary King Veers Down on Her Anchor In An Attempt to Help Fv Hannah Louisa Stranded In Gale Force South-Easte
Bridlington lifeboat, the 37' Oakley William Henry and Mary King veers down on her anchor in an attempt to help FV Hannah Louisa stranded in gale force south-easterly winds and very rough seas on March 13. The fishing vessel's crew... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs. Fairrie, President of the Hoylake Ladies' Life-Boat Guild
BY the death on 12th April last of Mrs.
A. J. Fairrie, President of the Hoylake Ladies' Life-boat Guild, in her eightyninth year, the Institution has lost the oldest of its many lady workers. For over thirty ysars she...
Category: Obituaries
R.F.A. Wave Baron
Peel, Isle of Man.—At 10.25 on the morning of the 16th of July, 1950, the coastguard reported a signal from the R.F.A. Wave Baron, an oil tanker of London. There had been an accident in the engine-room and a doctor and ambulance were needed....
Cardenia
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 12.22 on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1956, the Foreland coastguard reported that a yacht was making distress sig- nals off St. Helen's Fort. The life- boat Jesse Lumb, which had just returned from an...
No. 51
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 7.50 on the evening of the 3rd of January, 1955, a woman at Norton telephoned that a vessel was burning flares near Black Rock. The vessel was the M.F.V. No. 51, of the Water Trans- port Section of the Royal Army...
Commemorative Items and Events During 1974 By Joan Davies
ON MARCH 4, 1824, a meeting was held in the City of London Tavern, presided over by Dr Manners Sutton, Archbishop of Canterbury, at which it was resolved to form the body which has since come to be known as the Royal National Lifeboat...
Category: Articles
The Practice of Smashing a Bottle of Wine Over the Bows, the Naming By a Celebrity, Usually a Lady, the Well-Wishing, the Religious Blessing and the Cheers Are All of Them Deeply Rooted In History.
The practice of smashing a bottle of wine over the bows, the naming by a celebrity, usually a lady, the well-wishing, the religious blessing and the cheers are all of them deeply rooted in history.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Below) Weymouth Lifeboat the 52' Barnett Frank Spiller Locke Leaving Harbour at 1507 on Thursday June 12 to Help Four Canoeists Reported In Difficulty Off Bowleaze Co
(Below) Weymouth lifeboat, the 52' Barnett Frank Spiller Locke, leaving harbour at 1507 on Thursday, June 12, to help four canoeists reported in difficulty off Bowleaze Cove. The wind was gale force north-north-easterly, the sea rough... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs