LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Record Year
THE year 1936 was for the life-boat service the busiest in its whole history of 113 years. Life-boats were launched 468 times to the help of vessels in distress. That is an average of nine launches a week. Never before have there been so...
Category: Annual Reports
(Right) Bbc Radio Suffolk Talks Live from the Beach to the Duke of Atholl
(right) BBC Radio Suffolk talks live from the beach to The Duke of Atholl who, as Chairman at the time, first announced the fast lifeboat programme. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Ben Maye
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 7th of April, 1959, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a coaster was ashore in Calf Sound. The coxswain had received a telephone message informing him of this...
Berend N.
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 7th of January, 1954, the Needles coastguard tele- phoned that the motor vessel Berend N., of Delfzijl, had sent a distress message five miles south-east of the Needles. At 1.54 the...
Service to Junella:
Service to Junella: Just alter midnight on September 29. 1980. Stornoway's 48ft 6in Solent lifeboat, Hugh William Viscount Cough, under the command of Coxswain Malcolm MacDonald launched on service to the motor fishing vessel Junella....
Category: Services
Mr. Ernest Marples Presents B.E.M. to Mrs. Bella Mattison, of Cullercoats, Famous R.N.L.I. Collector
Mr Ernest Marples Presents B.E.M. To Mrs Bella Mattison of Cullercoats Famous R.N.L.I. Collector. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Platform Party at the Re-Dedication of Ballycotton 's New Lifeboat
The Platform Party at The Re-Dedication of Bellycotton 's New Lifeboat. - View image in PDF
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(Right) the Ceremony Over Sir Alec Goes Aboard for a Tour of the Harbour
(Right) The ceremony over, Sir Alec goes aboard for a tour of the harbour.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
In the After Cabin of Each Lifeboat Sensitive Pens Kept a Ceaseless Scientific Chronicle
In the after cabin of each lifeboat sensitive pens kept a ceaseless scientific chronicle. . . .. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Nafsiporos Adrift In Winds In Excess of 100 Knots December 2 1966
Nafsiporos adrift in winds in excess of 100 knots, December 2, 1966.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs