LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Converted Yacht Mary Ann
St. Helier, Jersey. At 3.50 on the morning of the 20th of July, 1958, the honorary secretary received a message that a man fishing at Plemont had heard shouts and seen white flares, and that a small boat appeared to be in difficulty close to...
The Standard Bearer of the Life-Boat Service
Mr. W. Hopper, one of the Margate crew which went to Dunkirk in 1940. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fundraising Choir, the Cromer Smugglers,
Fundraising choir, the Cromer Smugglers, make their mark as international favourites…. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
While Hartlepool's New 44' Waveney Lifeboat the Scout Was at Poole on Trials Before Going on Station She Took Out on Poole Harbour Four Young Local Scouts Togethe
While Hartlepool's new 44' Waveney lifeboat The Scout was at Poole on trials before going on station, she took out on Poole Harbour four young local Scouts together with 84-year-old Andrew Primmer (centre of group above), who took... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Converted Ship's Boat Judorka
Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 1.52 on the morning of the 1st of September, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the converted ship's boat Judorka of Swansea had not returned to her berth in the...
The Chief Rabbi's Appeal for the Life-Boat Service
THE Institution has received a personal letter from the Very Rev. the Chief Rabbi, Dr. J. H. Hertz, Ph.D., ex- pressing the hope that the Jews of Great Britain will respond generously to the appeal of the life-boat service.
Category: Correspondence
Pinnace of the Sea Cadets
Troon, Ayrshire. — At 6.30 in the evening of the 2nd of May, 1948, the pilot house telephoned that the steam pinnace of the Sea Cadets appeared to have broken down and was drifting towards the Black Rocks. The motor life-boat Sir...
The Launch of the Selsey Motor Life-Boat
(Note the Trolley, at the Head of die Slipway, by means of which the Boat is run along on Rail; from the Boat-house.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The French Schooner, Pierre Desiree
On the same day a French schooner, the Pierre D6siree, got on the Hooper Sands, off Llanelly, during a moderate gale, with a heavy sea.
On her signals of distress being seen, the Life-boat Stanton Meyrick of Pimlico was...
The South Goodwin Lightvessel (2)
On the night of the 26th-27th November, 1954, the South Goodwin lightvessel broke adrift in a gale and at daylight was found to be lying on her beam ends. The Dover, Ramsgate and Walmer life-boats were all launch- ed, but the sole survivor...