LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Batory, of Gydnia
At 6.30 p.m. on ist August, 1967, the honorary secretary was informed that the motor vessel Batory of Gydnia had embarked a sick man from the weather ship Weather Adviser. The life-boat Pentland (Civil Service No. 31) was launched at 8 o'...
September (1)
BOURNEMOUTH, HAMPSHIRE. About 2.20 in the afternoon of Easter Sunday, the 21st of April, 1946, the pleasure craft Skylark sank in Bournemouth Bay about a mile off Alum Chine, with 70 or more people on board. The weather was fine and the sea...
Category: Services
Bill's Brownies
Bill Coleman, Leamington Spa vice chairman, recently gave a talk on the lifeboat service to the 3rd Warwick (St. Nicholas) Brownie pack.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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
Annual Report. 1896
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town Hall, Charing Cross Road, on Saturday, the 21st day of March, 1896, Captain His Royal Highness The DUKE OF YORK, R.N., KG-., in the Chair...
Category: Annual Reports
Helene, of Rye
DONNA NOOK.—On the 20th February, at 9 A.M., the schooner Helene, of Rye, bound from that port to Hull, was wrecked during a gale at N.E. off Grainthorpe Haven. On the boatmen perceiving the Helene was aground and flying a signal of distress...
Penarth - D Class
Guests and crew members with Penarth's new D class lifeboat at the handing over ceremony on 16 August 1989. Mrs Roma Cresswell and her husband John are in the centre flanked by crew members, with station honorary secretary Captain Graham... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Three Fishing Cobles Mary, Kingfisher, William and Alice all of Hartlepool
The fishing- coble Mary, of Hartlepool, was seen in a helpless condition drifting on the Kettleness Reefs, in the south part of Runswick Bay, soon after daylight on the 16th June, while a heavy gale was blowing from the...
Shotton, of West Hartlepool
At 2 A.M. on the 8th February, the steamer Shotton, of West Hartlepool, got on the rocks off Newbiggin Point. A strong breeze at S.E. was blowing, and considerable sea was on.
The Life-boat W. Hopkinson of Brighouse went...
The Machinery Is Completely Water-Tight and the Tractor Can Be Submerged Up to the Top of the Air-Intake and Exhaust Pipes, and the Driver's Neck
The Machinery Is Completely Water-Tight and The Tractor Can Be Submerged Up To The Top of the Air-Intake and Exhaust Pipes and The Driver's Neck This Stern View Shows The Capstan By W. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs