LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Empty Boat Belonging To The Aberdeen Trawler Bracken Burn
JULY 31ST. - ARBROATH, ANGUS. At 9.30 in the morning a message was received from the coastguard asking that the life-boat should go to a position thirteen miles southeast by east of Arbroath, in answer to a ship’s SOS. The weather was foggy...
The Eighth Annual Pram Race Organised By Michael White from the King's Head Public
The eighth annual pram race organised by Michael White from the King's Head public house in Sutton Valence, raised £450 for Maidstone Villages branch, photograph by courtesy of Kent Messenger. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The First Waveney, 44-001, Is Going to the National Lifeboat Collection at Chatham.
The first Waveney, 44-001, is going to the National Lifeboat Co/lection at Chatham. She is pictured here on trials in December 1964.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Ketches Flower of Essex, Enterprise, Lord Beresford and Eustace
MARGATE.—At 8.30 A.M. on the 29th November, a message was received at Margate from the Coastguard at Epple Bay, stating that a barge was ashore half a mile east of that place; at the same time the Coastguard at Birchington reported a barge,...
Resolutions Passed at the Annual General Meeting, 1902
The Bight Hon. The EARL OF SELBORNE, P.O., First Lord of the Admiralty, IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by The Right Hon. The EARL OF SELBORNE, P.O.
Seconded by Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P.
be...
Category: Meetings
A Fine Service By the Donna Nook Life-Boat
ABOUT 10 P.M. on the 23rd December the Coast-guard reported a vessel in distress off Saltfleet, near Doona Nook, in Lincolnshire. The Life-boat crew were assembled and the Boat taken down to the beach, but, as nothing could be seen of the...
Category: Services
Launching Ceremony at Whitby. From "The Whitby Gazette."
SHORTLY after the commencement of the war, the finely-equipped Red Cross hospital ship Rohilla, belonging to the British India Steam Navigation Co., whilst proceeding on an errand of mercy to France, went ashore at Saltwick Nab, about a mile...
Category: Articles
International Hull Scrubbing Team: Holidaymakers Joined With Valentia, Kerry, Crewmen to Scrub and Paint the Underside of the Hull of the Rowland Watts, the Local 52-Foot Barnett Life-Boat Which
International hull scrubbing team: holidaymakers joined with Valentia, Kerry, crewmen to scrub and paint the underside of the hull of the Rowland Watts, the local 52-foot Barnett life-boat which was built in 1957. In the picture are (left to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Richard Evans, of the Moelfre Life-Boat (left) Lt.-Cmdr. Harold Harvey, V.R.D., R.N.R., the Institution's Inspector of Life-Boats for the North West, and Coxswain Thomas Alcock, of the Holyhead Life-Boat
Coxswain Richard Evans, of the Moelfre life-boat (left), Lt.-Cmdr. Harold Harvey, V.R.D., R.N.R., the Institution's inspector of life-boats for the north west, and Coxswain Thomas Alcock, of the Holyhead life-boat, who between them were... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Motor Fishing Vessels Winifred, Express and Random Harvest
Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 11.18 on the morning of the 3rd of February, 1960, the life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield II was launched to stand by three local motor fishing vessels, which were entering harbour in very bad weather. There was...