LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Walmer Life-Boat Standing By the East Goodwin Lightvessel In 1961 When She Broke Adrift In Severe Weather. the Picture Was Taken Next Day After the Life-Boat Had Been Out In the Worst Condit
The Walmer life-boat standing by the East Goodwin lightvessel in 1961 when she broke adrift in severe weather. The picture was taken next day after the life-boat had been out in the worst conditions the crew could remember.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sir William Hillary, Bart
AMONG those men distinguished in the annals of their country for their exertions in the cause of humanity in saving life from ship- wreck, the name of Sir WILLIAM HILLARY must always claim a foremost place, not only as having personally...
Category: Articles
The Spanish Liquid Gas Carrier Butaseis
Liquid gas carrier fire A SPANISH LIQUID gas carrier Butaseis, lying at anchor three quarters of a mile off Brixham breakwater with a fire in her crew's quarters, was reported to the honorary secretary of Torbay lifeboat station at 0749...
Gifts In Gratitude for Services
On the 28th September, 1929, the Thurso Motor Life-boat rescued the crew, twenty in number, of a cutter belonging to H.M.S. Marl- borough. In appreciation of this service the Canteen Fund of H.M.S. Marlborough has given £22 to the...
Category: Donations
The Ex-Life-Boat King John
MOTOR BOAT TOW At 11.15 p.m. on 23rd November, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor boat had broken down two to three miles north-east of Dungeness. The life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched at 11.35 in a...
New Brighton: Volunteers vs the giant
Four incidents near New Brighton Lifeboat Station saw RNLI volunteers put their casualty care training into action during Wirral’s Giant Spectacular in October. As a giant puppet marched through the town, onlookers who took accidental...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Service In 1947
IN 1947 life-boats went out to the help of vessels in distress 587 times and rescued 427 lives. • There were fewer launches, and fewer lives rescued, than in 1946, but these two years are together the busiest that the Lifeboat Service has...
Category: Services
The Fishing Cobel Sybil, of Redcar
On the 25th Sep- tember, the fishing coble Sybil, of Redcar, was seen in great danger in the roadstead in a fresh wind and heavy sea. The life-boat Burton-on-Trent went out and brought ashore the vessel's crew of 2 men.
The Auxiliary Patrol Motor Boat Noel II
OCTOBER 6TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
At about 1.50 A.M. the naval authorities telephoned that the auxiliary patrolmotor boat Noel II, with four men on board, was having trouble with her engine and was adrift off the Heugh. A...
The Motor Fishing Coble Silver Line
AUGUST 28TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
The local motor fishing coble Silver Line, with a crew of four, was at sea in a strong east-north-east wind, with a rough sea and rain. As the weather grew worse she was in danger of being...