LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Longshore Fishing Boat Aga Sacke
TWO MEN RESCUED FROM FISHING BOAT Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
At 10.17 on the morning of the 1st April, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was burning flares and needed help. A...
Norwegian Honour for the Institution
SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., Chairman of organizathe Committee of Management, and Mr. George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution, have each been presented by H.M. the King of Norway with the Gold Medal of the Norwegian Life-boat Society...
Category: Awards
The S.S. Greyfriars
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—On the evening of the 25th January a message was received from Flamborough Head signal station that a vessel in Selwick Bay was sounding SOS. A strong S.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate swell. The weather was...
The Central Appeals Committee
FURTHER details for a midnight matinee to be held in the Spring at the Victoria Palace, London, will be included in the January, 1973, edition of THE LIFE-BOAT. The event is being run by the Central London Women's Committee under the...
Category: Committee
The Cunard Steamer Brest
CADGWITH, CORNWALL.—On the 6th September the Joseph Armstrong Life-boat went out twice and rescued 40 persons from the Cunard steamer Brest, of Glasgow, which, while on a voyage from Havre to Liverpool with a large number of passengers and a...
Ireland's Eye
AGROUND IN DENSE FOG Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 1.47 in the morning of the 7th of October, 1947, the coastguard reported a steam trawler aground near the end of the North Pier. There was a dense fog with a light westerly wind and a calm sea. The...
My Lady
POLISH TRAWLERS GUIDED TO HARBOUR Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.
On the afternoon of the llth August, 1962, the yacht My Lady of Hartlepool, which had a crew of five, grounded on a sandbank just inside the entrance to...
How to Clean Up for the Lifeboats Barrie Davis Studio Manager of Dawson Strange
How to clean up for the lifeboats.
Barrie Davis, studio manager of Dawson Strange Photography in Cobham (wearing Shoreline sweater) undertook to sell off in aid of the RNLI cleaning products which his firm had been... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
52-01, Arun, Prototype of Her Class, Now Stationed at Barry Dock. As Soon As She Was Launched It Was Clear That Here Was the Embodiment of New Ideas.
52-01, Arun, prototype of her class, now stationed at Barry Dock. As soon as she was launched it was clear that here was the embodiment of new ideas.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Government Banquet to the Delegates
ON 1st July His Majesty's Government gave a dinner at Lancaster House in honour of the Delegates to the Con- ference. The Right Hon. Sidney Webb, M.P., President of the Board of Trade, presided, supported by the Right...
Category: Articles