LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Above: Roy Castle and the Crew of Yarmouth Lifeboat at the Making of the Shipshapes Video for Children
Above: Roy Castle and the crew of Yarmouth lifeboat at the making of the Shipshapes video for children.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The British and Foreign Sailors' Society
As our readers are aware, the subjects treated on in this journal have been exclusively those which are either directly, or indirectly, connected with the function of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION—the " Preservation of Life...
Category: Articles
The Ex-Trinity House Launch Upway
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 21st October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat appeared to be drifting north with the ebb tide. As a boat with two people on board had been...
The American Steamer John R. Park, of San Francisco (1)
MARCH 21ST. - PENLEE, AND THE LIZARD, CORNWALL. At 4.15 in the afternoon a message was received at Penlee from the coastguard at Penzance, that a vessel and possibly two, nine miles west of The Lizard, needed help. There was a light...
The Danish Motor Vessel Jens Emil
TOWLINE PASSED TO DANISH MOTOR VESSEL Wick, Caithness-shire. At 11.55 on the morning of the 9th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Danish motor vessel Jens Emil had broken down four miles east of Wick. The...
The French Chasse-Maree Eleanore, of Nantes
On the night of the 4th November a French chasse-maree, the JSleanore, of Nantes, was driven on shore on the West Sand off Blakeney, the wind blowing hard from N.N.W., and the night hazy. At daylight the vessel was seen from the shore, and...
Mr R. M. Addison Obe,
June 1998 Mr R. M. Addison QBE, RNLI Life Vice President. Mr Addison joined the Committee of Management m 1983 and was appointed a vice president in 1996 and life vice president in 1997. In addition, he also served on the Fundraising...
Category: Obituaries
The Ib 1-Type D Class Inshore Lifeboat Blue Peter IV brings Her Crew Safely Home
The IB 1-type D class inshore lifeboat Blue Peter IVbrings her crew safely home. She was memorably named by Blue Peter's Konnie Huq at the London Boat Show in January 2005. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Mumbles Life-Boat Disaster Fund
AT a final meeting of the committee and representatives of the subscribers to the Mayor of Swansea's 1947 Mumbles Life-boat Disaster Fund, which was held at the Guildhall, Swansea, on the 4th of June, a scheme was approved for the...
Category: Accounts
The Union Castle Liner Winchester Castle
Weymouth, Dorset.—On the night of the 16th February the 20,000-ton Union Castle liner Winchester Castle, bound from Port Natal for Southampton, ran aground two hundred yards south of Blacknor Fort. A moderate S.E. breeze was blowing, with a...