LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Greek Cargo Vessel Stelianos
GREEK VESSEL AGROUND At n.20 p.m. on 6th September, 1964, a message was received over the radiotelephone from Humber radio station that a small vessel, aground half a mile from Spurn Point, was asking for assistance.
The...
Although the Majority of the Funding for Exmouth's
Although the majority of the funding for Exmouth's new Trent class Forward Birmingham came from an appeal in the City whose name she bears, her building was only possible because the appeal was topped up by no less than 13 smaller... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Former Trawler Mary La
Ex-trawler ablaze THE HARWICH Waveney class relief lifeboat Khami was returning from a publicity visit to the East Coast Boat Show at Ipswich on the afternoon of Sunday, June 14, 1987, when the fiveman crew spotted smoke billowing from the...
The French Ketch Notre Dame De France
At 11.19 A.M., on the 10th February, the Coastguard reported that a vessel was showing signals of distress off Oxwich Point, and that a steamer was endeavour- ing to assist her, but that there was too much sea. The Coxswain having pro- cured...
Rug-Making for the Institution
As recorded in The Life-boat for last September, the Honorary Secretary of the Cobham (Surrey) Branch, made a rug in the shape and colours of the Institution's flag for an official of the Sudan Government Dockyard at Khartoum, giving the...
Category: Donations
The Ribble Navigation Barge Musgrave
Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire.—At 10.25 on the night of the 15th of January, 1954, the Formby coast- guard telephoned that the man in the Ribble navigation barge Musgrave, moored three quarters of a mile west of Lytham pier, had reported that...
To Residents on the Coast
It is anticipated that not the least inte- resting and instructive page of our Journal will be that which is devoted to Corres- pondence. Knowledge gained by expe- rience and personal observation is always valuable, and especially is it so...
Category: Articles
Princess Alexandra Visited Guernsey Channel Islands and Met the St. Peter Port Life-Boat Crew on 10th October 1968 Here She Is Shown Talking to Members of the Crew
Princess Alexandra visited Guernsey, Channel Islands, and met the St. Peter Port life-boat crew on 10th October, 1968. Here she is shown talking to members of the crew.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Polish Yacht Jan-z-Kolna
POLISH YACHT AGROUND Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At one minute past nine on the morning of Tuesday the 24th September, 1963, the honorary secretary received a message that a large yacht had gone aground in the vicinity of Barrow No. 6 buoy and...
In the Lord Mayor's Procession
The pulling and sailing life-boat Mary Thereasa Boileau (Dungeness, 1912-39) (See page 411). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs