LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sulby
NOV. 23RD. - TOBERMORY, ISLE OF MULL. At 12.15 A.M. a message was received from the customs officer that a ship’s boat had reached the Rhunagad Lighthouse with part of the crew of the Fleetwood t r a w l e r S u l b y , sunk by enemy...
International Hull Scrubbing Team: Holidaymakers Joined With Valentia, Kerry, Crewmen to Scrub and Paint the Underside of the Hull of the Rowland Watts, the Local 52-Foot Barnett Life-Boat Which
International hull scrubbing team: holidaymakers joined with Valentia, Kerry, crewmen to scrub and paint the underside of the hull of the Rowland Watts, the local 52-foot Barnett life-boat which was built in 1957. In the picture are (left to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Aeolian
Mersey takes four off sinking yacht in gale and heavy seas Coxswain Chris Haw of Swanage's 12m Mersey class lifeboat Robert Charles Brown has been awarded the Thanks of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Inscribed on Vellum for the...
A Night on the Goodwins
[This article appeared in The Lancet for 29th, June 1946, in the feature "In England Now," and is reproduced by kind permission of the author and the editor of The Lancet.] OCCASIONALLY we read in our daily paper "The...
Category: Articles
Celtic
OCT. 14TH. - MARGATE, KENT. -During the morning a sailing barge was seen dragging her anchor off Margate Jetty. A northerly gale was blowing, with a very rough sea, and it was decided to send out the motor life-boatThe Lord Southborough...
New for Old
1998 saw two historic lifeboats return to the water - and both most appropriately in the area where they served as active lifeboats.
At Beinhridge the Coxswain of the current lifeboat Martin Woodward, saw years of tenacity...
Category: Articles
This impressive carnival float—it depicts a 48-foot 6-inch class of life-boat—was a big attraction at the end of last year at the Bridgwater, Somerset, carnival. It was entered by Mr. D. B. Frost of the Black Horse Inn, Bridgwater.
This impressive carnival float—it depicts a 48-foot 6-inch class of life-boat—was a big attraction at the end of last year at the Bridgwater, Somerset, carnival.
It was entered by Mr. D. B. Frost of the Black Horse Inn,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mayflower
Sunderland, Co. Durham.—At 8.26 on the morning of the 24th of August, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a man at Whitburn had reported a fishing coble flying a distress signal two and a half miles off Whitburn.
At nine...
The Life-Boat Collecting Box Rescued from the Wreck of the S.S. "Amble."
(On the left is the Rev. T. N. Dunscombe, Hon. Secretary of the Hauxley Branch, and on the right Captain Young, the Amble Pilot.). - View image in PDF
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Jan Goddard from Aberdovey Lifeboat Station Is Just One of the Rnli's Female Crew Members
Jan Goddard from Aberdovey lifeboat station is just one of the RNLI's female crew members who play an increasingly important role, not only in active service but also in recruiting new members.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs