LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Search for Edward May
AT 4.45 on the morning of the 8th of September, 1954, Edward May, a 44- year-old steel worker from Scunthorpe, waded into the sea at Cap Gris Nez.
He planned to swim to Dover unes- corted and thereby become the first man to...
Category: Services
and Is Greeted As She Comes Ashore at Hms Vernon (Right) By Members of Walmer Crew at Portsmouth for the Handing Over Ceremony of Their New Rather Lifeboat Ha
. . . and is greeted as she comes ashore at HMS Vernon (right) by members of Walmer crew, at Portsmouth for the handing over ceremony of their new Rather lifeboat, Hampshire Rose. They are introduced by Michael Pennell, divisional inspector... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Converted Ship's Boat Shandra
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 7.30 on the evening of the 16th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a boat was in difficulties near the Q16 buoy in the Queen's Channel. A strong westerly wind was blowing with a...
February
FEBRUARY 2ND. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 9.37 A.M. the Cromer coastguard telephoned that a vessel, about one and a half miles north of Cromer, had reported that she had a man on board dangerously ill. The coastguard also...
Category: Services
Dedication of a Life-Boat
THOSE who read of the naming ceremonies of life-boats, but have not been present at one, may be interested to read also the service with which, before she is named, every life-boat is solemnly dedicated to her work. This service is used by...
Category: Articles
Braving the Blizzard
Newbiggin's Atlantic 75 CSMA 75th Anniversary was just one of many RNLI lifeboats scrambled during the Winter cold snap.
Her volunteer crew members braved horrendous conditions during an incident on some nearby cliffs...
Category: Articles
The Filey IRB Crew—An Irb Station Was Established There In 1966—Consists of a Bank Manager a Cafe Proprietor and a Joiner When This Photograph As Taken the Irb An
The Filey IRB crew—an IRB station was established there in 1966—consists of a bank manager, a cafe proprietor and a joiner. When this photograph as taken the IRB and the local life-boat had returned from the successful rescue of two youths... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Yarmouth Isle of Wight and Poole:
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, and Poole: While on passage from Guernsey to Portsmouth on Thursday August 19, 1982, the 30ft ferro-concrete gaff sloop Fairweather Father broke her rudder 18 miles south west by south of the Needles Lighthouse. A... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SEAHAM, DURHAM.—The seafaring popu-ation of this place having expressed a de- sire to have a life-boat, not only for the sake of assisting the crows of distressed vessels, but also that they might bo on- ! abled to help pilot and...
Category: Articles
A Life-Boat Revue at Hythe
THE Hythe life-boat crew and their friends gave their third entertainment last February.1 This time it was a revue in four scenes called "Lifeboatania." It began with a representation of a storm and a rescue so realistic that the...
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