LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Southport and St. Anne's Disaster
DECEMBER 9th of last year was the fiftieth anniversary of the great disaster on the Lancashire coast when the life-boats at Southport and St. Anne's were both capsized, with the loss of 27 lives, in an attempt to rescue the crew of the...
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Charon of Styx
Flamborough and Scarborough, Yorkshire - At 5.5 p.m. on i6th February, 1967, a small yacht was reported to be in difficulties off Flamborough Head. The life-boat Friendly Forester was launched at 5.40 into a moderate south south easterly...
Ethel Hilda
The Motor Life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched at 7 P.M. on the 1st July and went to the Buxey Sands, as the Coast- guard had reported a vessel ashore. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing with a rough sea. The Life-boat found that the...
Right: Children Get Into the Spirit of the Occasion
Right: Children get into the spirit of the occasion with fancy dress at Lough Swilly's station open day in 2001. - View image in PDF
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The Duke of Kent, President of the R.N.L.I., Aboard the Bembridge, Isle of Wight Life-Boat, With Coxswain Peter Smith and Mr. Arthur B. Weaver, B.E.M., Honorary Secretary, and (Below) the Duke
The Duke of Kent, President of the R.N.L.I., aboard the Bembridge, Isle of Wight life-boat, with Coxswain Peter Smith and Mr. Arthur B. Weaver, B.E.M., honorary secretary, and (below) the Duke of Kent with the Bembridge crew of the 48-foot 6... - View image in PDF
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1953: the Trawler Sunlight Aground on a Ledge of Rock
1953: The Trawler Sunlight Aground On A Ledge of Rock. - View image in PDF
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The S.S Edwin D. Howard, of Pensacola, U.S.A.
MAY 13TH. - WALMER, KENT. About 4.50 in the afternoon a signal was received from the S.S Edwin D. Howard, of Pensacola, U.S.A., lying in the Downs, that she required a doctor. A moderate north-easterly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The...
Glamorgan's Gift of Two Life-boats to the Prince of Wales
A SCHEME is on foot to commemorate the safe return of the Prince of Wales from his voyage of 35,000 miles by a presentation from the County of Glamorgan which will at the same time signalise the fact that he is the Pre- sident of THE ROYAL...
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The Mersey Class Lifeboat Exhibited at This Year's London Boat Show Frank and Lena Clifford
The Mersey class lifeboat exhibited at this year's London Boat Show, Frank and Lena Clifford of Stourbridge, is an example of a lifeboat substantially funded by one legacy - which provides the opportunity for the lifeboat's name to... - View image in PDF
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