(From the painting by John Taylor Allerston, an eye-witness.).
Category: Drawings
The fine traditions of Newhaven lifeboat crews were remembered when the station's new Severn class lifeboat was named after the RNLI Chairman and his wife during a moving ceremony on 6 May.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-boatmen took part in the meetings, on 2oth and 2ist February, celebrating the 25th birthday of the Red Army. Life-boatmen from Margate and Southend-on-Sea were at the chief celebration in the Albert Hall, London; men from Newhaven and-...
Category: Articles
THE retirement on pension of John Owston, for forty-one years Coxswain of the Scarborough Life-boat, is an event in our annals which provides an opportunity of giving some brief record of a noble life which has been devoted to the service of...
Category: Articles
HAULING-OFF WAKPS TO LIFE-BOATS.
To the Editor of the Life-Boat Journal.
SIR, THE Committee of the Southwold Branch of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION have requested me to seek, through the medium...
Category: Correspondence
Rhyl, Flintshire - At 7.5 p.m. on 5th January, 1967, news was received that the engine of the pilot launch Nancy had broken down in a position between the North East and Dee buoys while taking a pilot out to a ship. The life-boat Anthony...
Six-hour service in horrific conditions to fishermen wrecked on rocks When the fishing vessel Sincerity went aground in stormy conditions off Ardlamont Point, the Campbeltown lifeboat had to travel 30 miles in total darkness just to reach...
The Scarborough Motor Life-boat on 24th January, 1937, on her way to stand by fishing-boats. - View image in PDF
(See page 281). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs