LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Hundred and Twenty-Five Years Old .The End of the Ketch "Ceres."
ON 24th November the ketch Ceres, of Bude, Cornwall, left Swansea for Bude with a cargo of eighty tons of slag.
Her crew was a skipper and a mate.
They intended to go over Bideford Bar for the night, but...
Category: Articles
Penlee: the Loss of Solomon Browne and Her Crew December 19 1981
PENLEE LIFEBOAT, the 47ft Watson class Solomon Browne, with her coxswain, Trevelyan Richards, and all on board, was lost on the night of Saturday December 19 during a service to the 1,400 ton coaster Union Star, registered in...
Category: Articles
The Irish Motor Torpedo Boat M. 4
Ballycotton, Co. Cork, and Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—During the afternoon of the 10th of January, 1950, the Helvick Head life-boat, H. F. Bailey, was on passage from Baltimore, expecting to call at Ballycotton. About 4.50, a searchlight...
The Danish Motor Fishing Vessel Opal
HUGE WAVE UPSET LIFE-BOAT ON the evening of 20th January last year the Danish motor fishing vessel Opal sailed from Buckle and set a course for the Fladden fishing grounds. At about 10.30 p.m. it was discovered that the engine room was...
The RNLI Benefited By 2001 Sixpences Collected at Evening Performances of the Film 2001: a Space Odyssey at the Abc Cinema Hastings the Money Was Taken to The
The R.N.L.I, benefited by 2,001 sixpences collected at evening performances of the film 2001: A Space Odyssey at the ABC Cinema, Hastings. The money was taken to the bank by spaceman Mr. Fred Robinson.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Left) at the Opening Ceremony
(Left) At the opening ceremony Admiral Graham, the director, inspects a guard of honour mounted by Felpham Sea Cadets, who also presented a plaque to the RNLl.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
During the 1979 World Cruise
During lh? IV7 J world cruise of the Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth 2, nn English country fair was held in aid of the American British Lifeboat Appeal. Introduced by f-'ather Mill.', and opened by Captain Douglas Ridley, the fair wax... - View image in PDF
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The Crew of Skegness Lifeboat
The crew of Skegness lifeboat station host the presentation of a Ford Ka to Mr and Mrs Henshaw, winners of the autumn 2004 Lifeboat Lottery.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Landlubber In the Life-Boat
The following article appeared in the Norwich Mercury of llth April, 1968, and is repro- duced by courtesy of the Editor Who, reading this, has not at some time or other rushed down to the beach at the sound of the maroons calling out the...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Services Round the Coasts
LAUNCHES AND LIVES SAVED BY LIFE-BOATS AND IRBs 1st June to 31st August: Launches 820, lives saved 387.
JUNE NORTH-WEST DISTRICT Holyhead, Anglesey - At 10.23 p.m.
on 25th June, 1966, a boy was reported to...
Category: Services