LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Indefatigable Chelsea Pensioners
The indefatigable Chelsea Pensioners collected a staggering £12,000 at the London Boat Show. From left to right: Robert Moy, Bert Spurdin, George Woolf, Dave Law and Doug Young.
Behind them are John Race (left) and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Holyhead Lifeboat - Christopher Pearce
Pictured on board the newly-named Christopher Pearte are crew members, Mrs Diana jean Pearce, Coxswain Brian Thomson and HRHThe Duke of Kent Photo: Ray Steadman. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Opening the Box
Cashing up are Richard Wright /centre! with (from left) Cyril, Jean and Neil Tysall and FtNLI area organiser, James Bradbury. - View image in PDF
Photo: Birmingham Post and Mail. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Category: Advertisement
Ferry Boat
GORLESTON.—The dandy Ferry Boat, of Great Yarmouth, bound on a mackerel fishing voyage, stranded on the South Scroby Sand in thick weather, a rough sea, and a strong wind from N.E. by N., on the 7th Jane. She showed a signal of distress, and...
Scamper
At 9.51 a.m. on I2th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Scamper, which was moored in breakers off Camaes bay, had asked for assistance. The life-boat Lady Jane and Martha Ryland, which was on...
A Rubber Dinghy
JANUARY 23RD. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX.
Just before five in the afternoon the naval authorities at Newhaven telephoned through the coastguard asking for the lifeboat to go out and investigate a rubber dinghy one mile south-east...
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.— Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824....
Category: Medals
October (1)
OCTOBER MEETING ST.ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE. About mid-day on the 13th of July, 1945, it was reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea off St.
Abbs Head. A light north-east wind was blowing, with a slight sea, and the...
Category: Services
Strathmartin
Lerwick, Shetlands.—Early in the evening of the 18th February it was learned that the steam trawler Strathmartin, of Aberdeen, was ashore on Loofa Baa shoal, in the harbour.
An E.S.E. gale was blowing with a very rough sea....