LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
April
Launches 23. Lives rescued 10.
APRIL 2ND. - AITH, SHETLANDS. At 4.30 P.M. the naval officer in charge, Shetlands, asked if the life-boat could take a military guard to Foula, and bring back some airmen whose Whitley bomber...
Category: Services
Life-Boat Day at Blackpool
Ponies and carriage lent to the branch by Mr. Herbert Hagenback, of the Tower Circus, Blackpool.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Schermuly Day Smoke Distress Signal.
Schermuly day smoke distress signal.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Duke of Kent at Hq
The RNLI President HRH The Duke of Kent visited Poole HQ and depot on 9 July and took the opportunity to inspect FAB 4, here in the company of Deputy Director Ray Kipling. Photo Evening Echo. Bournemouth. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
United States Life-Saving Service
WE learn from the Annual Report of the United States Life-saving Service lately issued' that on the 30th of June, 1886, there were 211 stations, 165 being on the Atlantic, 38 on the La,kes, 7 on the Pacific, and 1 at the Falls of the...
Category: Articles
Nicholas Schrager Who Owns the Victorian Thames Motorboat Duchess Doreen and Who Uses Her As a Floating Restaurant Offered His Craft and Cuisine to Molesey Branch for One Evening By Raf
Nicholas Schrager, who owns the Victorian Thames motorboat Duchess Doreen and who uses her as a floating restaurant, offered his craft and cuisine to Molesey branch for one evening. By raffling the 12 places available £270 was earned... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
When the Swiss Cargo Ship Nyon (5,000) Tons Ran Aground Near St. Abbs in November, 1958, the Local Life-Boat Provided the Longest Service by one of the Institution's Life-Boats - 11 Days and Nights
When the Swiss cargo ship Nyon (5,000) tons ran aground near St. Abbs in November, 1958, the local life-boat provided the longest service by one of the Institution's life-boats - 11 days and nights.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ebro
MARCH 18TH. - FRASERBURGH, AND PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. Just before nine o’clock in the evening the coastguard at Kinnaird Head reported that a white rocket had been seen off Rattray Head, and at 9.20 the Fraserburgh motor life-boat John...
Rescue By American Helicopter
Ix the early hours of the morning of the 27th of November, 1954, the South Goodwin lightvessel began to drift. The first man on shore to have any suspicion that something might be amiss with the lightvessel was the Deal coastguard, who...
Category: Services