LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coxswain Thomas Read, of Ramsgate
BY the death on 18th August, at the age of 68, of Coxswain Thomas Read, of Ramsgate, the Institution has lost one of its most distinguished coxswains.
Coxswain Read was appointed second 'coxswain about 1915, when the...
Category: Obituaries
Touring Headquarters After the Third Lotterydraw June Whitfield Said How Much She Would Like to Go Out In a Lifeboat Arrangements Were Made for Her and Terry Scott
Touring headquarters after the third lotterydraw, June Whitfield said how much she would like to go out in a lifeboat. Arrangements were made for her and Terry Scott to go out on trials of the 50ft Thames class lifeboat which will be... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Aerial Picture of Spurn Head Lifeboat Station Taken at 930 AM on May 25 1951 the Old and New Lighthouses Are Visible Together With An Assortment of World War I A
Aerial picture of Spurn Head lifeboat station taken at 9.30 a.m. on May 25, 1951. The old and new lighthouses are visible together with an assortment of World War I and II military installations.
Just below the lighthouses... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Category: Advertisement
The Dutch Yawl Tenente Roberth
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 10.3 on the night of the 4th of September, 1958, the coastguard received a message from the police at Brighton that a two- masted boat was sending distress signals.
Her position was given as a...
Photographs By Courtesy of Pan Am
photographs by courtesy of PAN AM.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Photograph (Above) By Courtesy of Paul Berriff
Photograph (Above) By Courtesy of Paul Berriff. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Danish Steamer Hekla
JANUARY 21ST. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
The Danish steamer Hekla had been torpedoed, but her crew were picked up by the Norwegian steamer Iris. - Rewards, £9 19s. 6d..
Lester Piggot on No 5 Go Total Entering the Winners Enclosure After the Pains- Wessex Stakes Followed By No 1 Gypsy Dancer (Pat Eddery) Who Was Third Home In This Fourth Race
Lester Piggot on No 5 Go Total entering the winners enclosure after the Pains- Wessex Stakes, followed by No 1 Gypsy Dancer (Pat Eddery) who was third home in this fourth race.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs