LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gloriosa
Storm launch A CARGO VESSEL, Gloriosa, making for Kings Lynn was reported to the honorary secretary of Skegness lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1610 on Wednesday January 11, a day of exceptionally high tides and winds on the east coast...
A Large Brig
The Ramsgate life-boat has been so frequently off to the Goodwin Sands, towed by the harbour tug, in reply to night signals of distress from the floating light-vessels moored off those fatal shoals, that we cannot attempt to describe...
H.M.S. Valorous
JULY 15TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At about 6 P.M.
a message was received from the naval authorities at Great Yarmouth that a destroyer, H.M.S. Valorous, was approaching the roadstead. On board were...
Appledore
Captain Prideaux-Brune, J.P., President of the Branch, handing the Vellum to the Mayor. On the right of the Mayor is Captain H. F. J. Rowley. C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Lifeboats.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter
THE PERIOD of a little over a quarter of a century during which the late Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, was the Institution's President, will almost certainly be looked back upon by future historians of the life-boat service as one of...
Category: Articles
A Photograph Taken In March 1969 As a Boat Crosses the Bar at Aberdeen Harbour During the Same Period of Bad Weather Which Caused the Loss of the Longhope Life-Boat
A photograph taken in March, 1969, as a boat crosses the bar at Aberdeen harbour during the same period of bad weather which caused the loss of the Longhope life-boat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Your Shout
your shout Dear Editor i’ve always enjoyed reading the Lifeboat. this time i read it over breakfast when the washing machine – a noisy one – was on. the new eye-catching arrangement held me riveted until fi nally the silence drew my...
Category: Correspondence
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Swanage, Dorset.—At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 31st of July, 1954, when the life-boat was about to be launched for the life-boat flag-day, a police sergeant told the coxswain that a woman was missing and was thought to be on a cliff at...
The S.S. Araucania
Late on the night of the 25th October the s.a.
Araucania of Glasgow stranded on the rooks known as the " Inches," outside Ardrossan harbour. The vessel had left dock with a cargo of coals for Genoa, and broke down...