LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Why Is a Ship Always a She, and Why Is She Invariably Launched With Ceremony and Usually the Traditional Bottle of Champagne (Arrowed)?
Why is a ship always a she, and why is she invariably launched with ceremony and usually the traditional bottle of champagne (arrowed)?. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs. Brandreth Gibbs, of Leigh-On-Sea
Mrs. Brandreth Gibbs, who died on 19th December last, at the age of eighty-eight, became a Life-boat worker more than sixty years ago. As far back as 1869 she was presented with a framed photograph for her work in connexion with an appeal at...
Category: Obituaries
Atta Boy
Margate, Kent.—At 7.27 on the even- ing of the 29th of August, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that three men in a boat were in difficulties off Foreness Point and were drifting out to sea. At 7.30 the life-boat North Foreland, Civil...
Can You Identify This Lifeboat, the Location, Or Even the Date?
Can you identify this lifeboat, the location, or even the date? The photos were found recently with no identifying details and the lifeboat's name cannot be read from the prints.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Protestant Archbishop of Dublin Dedicates Her to God
The Protestant Archbishop of Dublin Dedicates Her To God. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Annual Meeting
The annual meeting was held in London on October 18th, and the seven life-boatmen who have won medals for gallantry since the end of the war were present. Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, presided and read a message from...
Category: Articles
The Auxiliary Fishing Smack Alice
JULY 23RD. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 6 P.M. information was received from the Mersey Dock Board that a fishing vessel was ashore on Burbo Bank, west of the training wall. There was not sufficient water to get near the vessel, but she was...
City of Dublin
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—On the evening of the 8th January the steamer City of Dublin, of Dublin, bound home from Hamburg with a general cargo, ran aground on Arldow Main Bank, about five miles north of the light-vessel.
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Whilst Filming the Tv Programme Highway
Whilst filming the TV programme Highway in Anstruther Sir Harry Secombe interviewed Coxswain Peter Murray. He was also invited to break open a gallon bottle of whisky at the Craws Nest Hotel releasing £255.88 to be put towards... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs