LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rescue at Southend-On-Sea
The sinking lighter Elmsdale is on the right. The one man on board had taken to a small boat. It can be seen, nearly full of water, ahead of the life-boat. - View image in PDF
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Category: Photographs
Every Year Calshot Branch Organises A
Every year Calshot branch organises a bonfire party and last November £2,000 was raised. - View image in PDF
Jenni Murray of BBC South was among those who joined in the fun. In ten years Calshot branch has raised £28,500.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Ship’s Boat and an Aeroplane
SEPTEMBER 5TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. A ship’s boat was reported adrift and an aeroplane down in the sea, but the boat was found empty and of the aeroplane only wreckage was found. - Rewards, £7 2s..
A Small Motor Boat Flora MacDonald
MAY 10TH. - TROON, AYRSHIRE. At eight in the evening of the 9th a man went out in his small motor boat Flora MacDonald, with his father-in-law. At 11.50 his wife reported that the boat had not returned.
At 12.45 next...
Mrs R M Reed (Left) the Donor of the Cromer Life-Boat Ruby and Arthur Reed
Mrs. R. M. Reed (left), the donor of the Cromer life-boat Ruby and Arthur Reed, with some of the children who won awards in the B.B.C. television programme 'Blue Peter' Life-boat Day poster competition. When Cromer held its flag day... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Whitby Lite-Boat Mary Ann Hepworth, a 41-Foot Watson, Heading Into a Moderate Sea.
The Whitby lite-boat Mary Ann Hepworth, a 41-foot Watson, heading into a moderate sea.. - View image in PDF
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Two Station Secretaries
JOHN W. BAYES, M.B.E., honorary secretary at Flamborough from Sep- tember 1920 to July 1954, died on the 24th of November, 1954. For his long and valued services the Institution awarded him binoculars in 1931 and the gold badge in 1948. In...
Category: Obituaries
Launches
BARROW ABERDEEN ON-1248(17-24):MayS.16Jun 12.
Jul 11,20{ i2) D-536:May5,13.16Jun 12.25,29, Jul 2.9.11.20(x2) ABERDOVEY B-758:MayB.10,Jul 18(x2),21,31 ABERSOCH B-TOftMay 13Jun 1.19.2427, Jul17(x2).24 ABERYSTWYTH B-70*May...
Category: Services
Two French Life-Boat Disasters
IT is with very great regret that we record two Life-boat disasters on the French coast during the present year.
In one of them two Life-boats of La Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Nau- frages were wrecked with the loss...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.—During a moderate N.N.E. gale and a heavy sea on the 2nd Feb., 1903, signals of distress were observed on the schooner Mary Boberts, of Carnarvon, which was lying in the roads. Rockets to assemble the crew were at...
Category: Services