LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Canoe
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 2.25 on the afternoon of the 2nd of November, 1959, the police at Holy well told the coxswain that two young men were missing after a canoe had capsized off Greenfields. At 3.10 the life-boat Oldham IV was launched in...
An Aeroplane (151)
OCTOBER 2ND. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boat found nothing.- Rewards, £32 16s. 6d..
Five Lives Rescued In the Floods. Unusual Service By the Whitby Life-Boat
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 106 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 77 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 30th, 1931 62,735 Five Lives Rescued in the Floods.
Unusual...
Category: Services
The Whitby Lifeboat Robert and Ellen Robson Is One of Only Two Pulling Boats Formerly In the Service of the Rnli Still In Existence She Was Built In 1918 By S E Sound
The Whitby lifeboat, Robert and Ellen Robson, is one of only two pulling boats formerly in the service of the RNLI still in existence. She was built in 1918 by S. E. Sounders Ltd, in the Isle of Wight, at a cost of £1,615. Length 34'... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
THE THREE CORNISHMEN
THE THREE CORNISHMEN THREE men of Polruan, Mr. Lloyd Dunn, Mr. John Curtis and Mr. Anthony Raymond, have all received letters of thanks from the R.N.L.I. for the parts they played in rescuing four survivors when a dinghy capsized on 7th...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Vigilant
CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—A telegram reporting a vessel ashore in Port St.
Mary Bay was received early on the morning of the 7th February, while a moderate gale was blowing from the S., with a very heavy sea. The snow having...
Pigeons Are Helping the RNLI for In July the Northern Centres Charity Championship—A 400-Mile Race from Rennes France—Was Held In Aid of the Life-Boat Service
Pigeons are helping the R.N.L.I. For in July the Northern Centres Charity Championship—a 400-mile race from Rennes, France—was held in aid of the life-boat service. Mr. Brian Whittle, of Ashton-in- Makerfield, secretary of the Western Centre... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Station
THB following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 293 Life-boat Stations...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Gustav Bitter (1)
POLPEAR (LIZARD) AND CADGWITH.— On the morning of the 4th March the s.s. Gustav Bitter, of Newcastle-on-Tyne while proceeding from London to the Manchester Ship Canal with a general cargo, stranded on the Callidges Rocks, off the Lizard...
The S.S. Hilary
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 1.22 in the morning of 9th April, 1939, the coastguard reported that the 7,000-tons s.s.
Hilary, of Liverpool, was ashore at Carmel Head. She was homeward bound from Brazil to Liverpool with general...