LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Postcards of Other Days: (Above) Launch of the Lifeboat from Margate Pier 1903
Lifeboat postcards of other days: (above) Launch of the lifeboat from Margate Pier, 1903 . . .. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Shipwash Lightvessel
Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 9.43 on the morning of the 8th of October, 1957, Trinity House Depot at Harwich asked if the life-boat would bring ashore the sick master of the Shipwash lightvessel, who needed medical treatment urgently.
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Gorden Kaye, Assisted By Anthony Oliver,
Gorden Kaye, assisted by Anthony Oliver, delves deep for for the winners amongst some 100,000 tickets stubs. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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
A Pirate Invasion of the Trent Navigation Inn Was Part of the Pub's Lifeboat Day Which Raised £100 Here Donclarke the Event's Organiser Hands Over a Cheque for the Takings to Mr C G Pole Ca
A pirate invasion of the Trent Navigation Inn was part of the pub's lifeboat day which raised £100. Here, DonClarke, the event's organiser, hands over a cheque for the takings to Mr C. G. Pole Carew, High Sheriff of Nottingham... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Blackwater Lightvessel
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 11.36 on the morning of the 4th of January, 1958, the assistant inspector of Irish Lights told the honorary secretary that there was a sick man on board the Blackwater lightvessel. As there was no Irish...
The Smiths Knoll Lightvessel
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 12.13 early on the morn- ing of the 26th of April, 1960, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the Smiths Knoll lightvessel was uncon- scious and needed a...
The Sailing Barge William Cleverly
Early on the morning of the 18th December the coastguard telephoned that a sailing barge was dragging her anchor about three miles E. by N. of the pier, and the motor life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched at 1.52 A.M. A moderate south...
The New Station at Galway
IT was decided last year to open a new Life-boat Station at Kilronan, Aran Islands, at the entrance to Galway Bay on the west coast of Ireland. A Motor Life-boat of the Watson Cabin type is to be laid down for this Station, and until the new...
Category: Inaugurations
The Sailing Ship Maria Asumpta (2)
Three lifeboats search for survivors from wrecked sailing ship Lifeboats from three stations were involved in the search for survivors when the 137-year-old sailing ship Maria Asumpta foundered after running ashore on the rocky North...