LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats During the Storms of November and December, 1867
The following is a list of the services of the boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION during the recent heavy gales:— - ' NO. of Lives saved.
Nov. 16-17,1867.—The Manky Wood life-boat at Poole rescued the crew of...
Category: Services
St. Abbs Has Many Young Visitors In the Summer and the Life-Boat Collecting Box Overlooking the Harbour Is Not Forgotten
St Abbs Has Many Young Visitors In The Summer and The Life-Boat Collecting Box Overlooking The Harbour Is Not Forgotten. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Flamborough, Yorkshire, Life-Boat Towing Into Bridlington Harbour the Fishery Research Vessel Trellina
The Flamborough, Yorkshire, life-boat towing into Bridlington harbour the fishery research vessel Trellina which had her nets entangled round her propeller off Flamborough Head in July, 1970.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dora the Colonel's 'Pretty' Lifeboat Saving the Crew of Jeune Hortense In 1888
Dora, the colonel's 'pretty' lifeboat saving the crew of Jeune Hortense in 1888. - View image in PDF
Photograph bv courtesy of F. E. Gibson. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gold for the Life-Boat Service
THE Institution has received an anony- mous parcel containing twenty-nine gold sovereigns and twenty-four half- sovereigns, packed in cotton wool, many of them with Queen Victoria's head"..
Category: Donations
The Light Type of Motor Life-Boat. Problems of the Three Capsizes
By LiEUT.-CoMMANDER P. E. VAUX, D.S.C., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.
THEEE motor life-boats have capsized in the space of fifteen months. In each capsize lives were lost.
The St. Ives life-boat...
Category: Articles
The American Steamer Santa Cecilia, of New York and The Destroyer Camp
NOVEMBER 18TH. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. The American steamer Santa Cecilia, of New York, had collided with the American escorting destroyer Camp, but other vessels took them in tow. - Rewards, £10 4s..
The "Dunleary" (Civil Service No. 6). Presented By the Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
A Non-self-righting Motor Life-boat of the Watson type (45 ft by 12 ft. 6 in.}. Fitted with a Tylor engine developing 60 B.H.P.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Every Year the Police Officers Who Work the Gower Hold a Dinner Dance
Every year the police officers who work the Gower hold a dinner dance and any profits from that function are donated to a worthy cause. This year it was agreed that the profits should go to the lifeboat station at Morton. The event was very... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Colin Harrison of the Runswick Yorkshire
Coxswain Colin Harrison, of the Runswick, Yorkshire, life-boat, was drowned in June when his coble capsized.
His son Colin, aged 12, was, however, found unconscious in the sea but revived..
Category: Obituaries