LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
NEW ROMNEY, KENT.—On the 31st December, two French fishing-smacks were seen driving out of Duugeness Roads down on a lee-shore, off Dymchurch. The wind was blowing a strong gale from the S.W.
The Dungeness life-boat, the...
Category: Services
(Left) Jon Jones.
while (left) Jon Jones. The Lifeboats Editorial Assistant dispenses ballooons between stints on the Information and Storm Force desks. Jon took a lot of the pictures on this page too, but he doesn't get a 'credit' as he works for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Boy
JUNE 21ST. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 4.45 P.M. a message was received that a Peterhead motor boat, the Boy, with two on board, had not returned, and the motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was launched at 5...
Mary B.
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
A Fishing Vessel
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
A Working Man on the Life-Boat Service
THE following letter was received last October from Ashington, the mining village in Northumberland. The Cresswell Lifeboat Station IB not far away, and most of the Cresswell Crew have at one time or another worked in theAshington mines. The...
Category: Articles
Tribute to the Brave
Tribute to the brave The day of the annual presentation of awards at the Royal Festival Hall ends with an after-theatre supper at the Rubens Hotel for all the medallists and their families. Mrs Anne Wall has very generously made this...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution (continued.)
RAMSGATE.—At about 2.20 A.M., on the 5th May, during a fresh wind from the N.N.W., signal guns and rockets were fired from' the North Sand Head and Gull Lightships. The Vulcan steam-tug and Life-boat Bradford were manned as quickly as...
Category: Services
An Aeroplane (16)
FEBRUARY 6TH. - ARRANMORE, CO.
DONEGAL. Coastwatchers had reported an explosion and a ship on fire, but nothing was found, and later it was learned that an aeroplane had crashed and caught fire.- Rewards, £23 4s....
Seven Houses Are Being Built at Spurn Head for the Humber Lifeboat Crews This Is a Desolate Spot of Land and If the Rnli Did Not Provide Housing There Would Be No Crew F
DONATE A HOUSE? Seven houses are being built at Spurn Head for the Humber lifeboat crews. This is a desolate spot of land and if the RNLI did not provide housing there would be no crew for the boat.
The total cost is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs