LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The South Goodwin Lightvessel
Dover, Kent.—On the 4th of January, 1955, the Superintendent of Trinity House at Harwich asked if the life- boat would land an injured fog-signal driver from the South Goodwin light- vessel, as the weather was too bad for a shore-boat to put...
Jennifer, Age Seven,
Jennifer, age seven, from Liversidge sent in a photo of her on the day she took a trip on an out-of-service lifeboat in Whit by. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Central Appeals Committee
A second attempt a fortnight later began with a favourable light wind and ended in thick fog when the crew could barely see the length of the boat. 'All kinds of ghostly shapes and spectral ships, all manner of imaginary noises and...
Category: Committee
The Cromer Lightvessel
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 11.25 on the morning of the 2nd of October, 1954, the Superintendent of Trinity House at Yarmouth asked if the life-boat would fetch a very sick man from the Cromer lightvessel. At 11.40 the No. 1 life- boat Henry...
The Hardchine Hull (Right) Running at a Displacement Near to That of the Final Boat,
s. The hardchine hull (right) running at a displacement near to that of the final boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The South Goodwin Lightvessel
LAMPLIGHTER INJURED Walmer, Kent. At 10 a.m. on 28th January, 1964, as the life-boat was about to proceed on exercise with the district engineer, a radio message was intercepted from the South Goodwin lightvessel to Deal coastguard stating...
The R.A.F. Flying-Boat Walrus L.2237
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 6.42 P.M.
on the 29th September, 1938. the coastguard reported that an aircraft had come down in the sea and was firing rockets for help. After calling out the life-boat, the coastguard, in view of...
The S.S. Ramso
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 7.45 on the morning of the 3rd of April, 1959, a message was received that a vessel, which had been in a collision, was sinking near Little Nore Sands. The life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was...
Shipwreck Off Brighton
ON the 10th October last at an early hour the inhabitants of Brighton were aroused from their beds by the report of an approach- vious to the life-boats reaching the wreck, several rockets with lines attached had been fired under the...
Category: Services
The Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Addison Brown, of Cresswell, Northum- berland. He was appointed coxswain in 1925, after serving for a few months as second coxswain, and he has served in the life-boat for thirty-one...
Category: Articles