LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Brian Sockett Is Taking a Bath Around the Racing Circuit at Lydden Kent the Person Powered Push Which Entailed People from the Dover Area Pulling Or Pushing Peculiar Articles Around the Circui
Brian Socket! is taking a bath around the racing circuit at Lydden, Kent. The Person Powered Push which entailed people from the Dover area pulling or pushing peculiar articles around the circuit brought in £1,098.60 for the lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Ferry Boat Wallasey
DECEMBER 28TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 4.50 in the afternoon a message was received from the New Brighton stage that the ferryboat Wallasey was ashore north of Seacombe, with passengers on board.
A slight south-east...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Herbert Jones, of Hoylake, Cheshire. After serving for ten months as second coxswain of the neighbouring station of Hilbre Island, Coxswain Jones became second coxswain at Hoylake in 1920. He served...
Category: Articles
The King Returns
Over 120 Elvis lookalikes, gangsters, Vegas girls, and other Vegas-style characters attended a glitzy Viva Las Vegas' RNLI fundraising party on 10 November at Fifteen 05 in central London. The evening included a star performance from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pictured at the Presentation of the Red Cross Awards
Pictured at the presentation of the Red Cross awards are (from left to right) David Wyatt of the British Red Cross Society), Staff Officer General Duties Richard Perks, John Burke-Gaffney (Director General of the British Red Cross Society)... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Canadian Steamer Eaglescliffe Hall
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT SHERINGHAM OCTOBER 30TH - 31ST. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. At 7.47 in the evening of the 29th of October the Sheringham coastguard reported that a vessel off Cley, about five miles west of Sheringham, was showing a signal...
Ran I
Drifting in gale A DUTCH YACHT, the 42ft Ran I, reported at 2238 on Thursday June 4, 1981, that she was in difficulties in the vicinity of Shipwash Lightvessel; her engine had broken down and she was drifting in gale force winds. She had...
Flying Fish, of Whitby
On the 10th November, the brig Flying fish, of Whitby, ran ashore, in a sinking state, in a heavy E.S.E. gale, near Filey. The life-boat of the Institution stationed there was, as soon as possible, launched through a high surf, and proceeded...
The Hoylake Motor Life-Boat
JULY 10TH. - LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE.
While on her way to a shipyard at Freckleton the Hoylake motor life-boat was delayed by an engine breakdown. She was due off Lytham at three in the afternoon, but did not arrive...
The Motor Coble Royal Empire
— At 10.15 A.M. on 26th March it was re- ported by a fisherman that the motor coble Royal Empire, of Whitby, was in difficulties three miles N.E. by E. of Runswick and drifting before a strong S.E. gale with a heavy sea. The report was...