LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The American Forces Tug No. 672
SEPTEMBER 15TH. - THE MUMBLES, AND BARRY DOCK, GLAMORGANSHIRE.
The American Forces tug N o . 6 7 2 had grounded on the Tusker Rock, off Porthcawl, but she overturned before the life-boat reached the scene. Eight of her...
A Launch In the Great War
At Formby, Lancashire. The life-boat horses, obtained from a local contractor, had been requisitioned by the Army, and horses were lent from a military camp in the neighbourhood. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pilot Me II and the Courage
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 8th of December, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the Scarborough fishing boat Pilot Me II was bound for Whitby with engine trouble, and that the Scarborough life- boat was with her. At...
Main Photo Bottom - After the Flotilla
Main photo bottom - After the flotilla, the Queen Victoria and her carriage are hitched to a team of Suffolk Punch horses before being paraded along the Quay.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dutch Honour for the Fishguard Crew
IT is with much pleasure that we record that the Netherlands Government have shown their appreciation of the service of the Fishguard Motor Life-boat in saving seven lives from the Dutch motor schooner Hermina, on the 3rd December, 1920, by...
Category: Awards
The Late Mr. Edgar H. Johnson, F.C.I.S.
ANOTHER heavy loss has fallen on the Institution by the death of Mr. Edgar H.
Johnson, F.C.I.S., of Manchester, the District Organising Secretary for the North of England.
He was taken ill last spring,...
Category: Obituaries
The New Stromness Motor Life-Boat
ONE of the first Life-boat Stations to be provided with, a Motor Life-boat was Stromness, in the Orkneys. It was in 1903 that a Pulling and Sailing Lifeboat was first converted to motor-power.
This Boat was followed by two...
Category: Inaugurations
Gordon Knight Chairman of the Volvo National Dealers Association Draws the Winning Ticket the Scottish Volvo Draw Outside the Rnli's Scottish Headquarters
Gordon Knight Chairman of the Volvo National Dealers Association Draws The Winning Ticket The Scottish Volvo Draw Outside The Rnli's Scottish Headquarters. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Taken from the Newhaven Lifeboat During Her Service to the French Trawler La Frangoise These Photographs Show the Severity of the Seas Faced By Coxswain Len Patten
Taken From The Newhaven Lifeboat During Her Service To The French Trawler La Frangoise These Photographs Show The Severity of the Seas Faced By Coxswain Len Patten. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Beach Lifeguard Arancia Rescue Boat
The Beach Lifeguard Arancia rescue boat and the Exmouth D class Spirit of the f xe rescue the yacht Channel Dancer Photo: Rodney Mackintosh. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs