LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fishing Fleet
The fishing fleet belonging to this port were overtaken when at sea by a whole S.S.E. gale and very heavy sea, which suddenly arose on the 14th January. Fearing that an accident might occur to some of the boats, and be attended by loss of...
Harbour Life-Boats and the Life-Preserving Apparatus
WE are desirous of calling the attention of Commissioners of harbours, docks, and piers to the following clauses of an Act of Parliament, relative to the providing of life-boats and the life-preserving apparatus by the undertakers of such...
Category: Articles
A Canoe and a Dinghy
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 1.25 on the afternoon of the 23rd of August, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a small boy was drifting out to sea in a rubber dinghy off South Beach. Ten minutes later the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was...
When the Mayor of Poole Councillor J M Norman Performed the Opening Ceremony of the Rnli Depot at Poole on May 27 the Institution Was Also Entertaining Visito
When the Mayor of Poole, Councillor J. M. Norman, performed the opening ceremony of the RNLI depot at Poole on May 27, the Institution was also entertaining visitors from La Societe Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer. (I. to r.) John Atterton,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Lowestoft Trawler Renovate
Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 6 a.m. on 5th July, 1967, it was learned that the cargo boat Erctonia of Goole had the Lowestoft trawler Renovate in tow with engine trouble. The cargo boat had requested for the tow to be taken over. The life-boat...
Crew of the Plymouth Life-Boat
Crew of the Plymouth life-boat. Front row (I. to r.) M. Keane, reserve, D. Biscombe, emergency mechanic, F. W. Amos, 2nd coxswain, W. H. 6. Rogers, mechanic, T. Keane, assistant rnschanic.
Back row, R, Cotlerell, emergency... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Kentwood (1)
DEC. 27TH. - RAMSGATE, AND WALMER, KENT. At 9 A.M. a message was received from the Ramsgate coastguard that the S.S. Kentwood, of London, was sink-ing rapidly in the north Downs, and that her captain was trying to beach her. The Ramsgate...
August
Launches 39 Lives rescued 13
AUGUST 3RD. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At three in the afternoon the coastguard reported a vessel aground south of Holyhead in dense fog. There was no wind and the sea was smooth....
Category: Services
The S.S. Vistula
AITH'S 26 HOURS' SEARCH.
Aith, Shetlands. — 9th October, 1939. Information was received through the coastguard at 1.45 P.M.
that the s.s. Vistula, of Gothenburg, Sweden, had been...
Doing the Rounds
Rita Dlxon, member of Mirfield ladies guild, organised a sponsored bed and wheelchair push around Dewsbury and District Hospital raising £264 for the RNLI. Rita, an employee of the hospital, was joined by her son John, colleagues Joan... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs