LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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
Ann Mitchell
— On the evening of the 22nd January, the schooner Ann Mitchell went ashore near Fleetwood.
The new life-boat, not long before placed there by the NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTI- TUTION, was immediately launched, and taken in...
Mr R. M. Addison Obe,
June 1998 Mr R. M. Addison QBE, RNLI Life Vice President. Mr Addison joined the Committee of Management m 1983 and was appointed a vice president in 1996 and life vice president in 1997. In addition, he also served on the Fundraising...
Category: Obituaries
List of Launches
Aberdeen Arun: Aug 28, Sep 11 and Oct 4 D class: Aug 28, Sep 11 and Sep 27 Aherdovey Atlantic 75: Sep 11 Atlantic 21: Aug 6. Aug 9, Aug 14, Aug 15 (twice), Aug 21 (three times) and Sep 5 Abersoch Atlantic 21: Aug 9. Aug 15, Aug 17. Aug 18....
Category: Services
The S.S. Ford Fisher
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 9.0 in the morning of the 30th of December, 1951, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that he was keeping under observation a coaster on the east side of the River Wyre one and a half miles from the coastguard...
Rescue In a Gale Near the Harbour Bar
ON the morning of the 15th of April, 1954, the weather at Whitby, which was already bad, became steadily worse. The local fishing fleet was at sea, and at 9.30 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched.
Ex-Coxswain...
Category: Services
The S.S. Campo Grande
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About ten o'clock on the morning of the llth of January, 1953, the Walton-on-the- Naze coastguard telephoned that the Cork lightvessel had reported seeing a steamer two miles south-by-west of the lightvessel....
Parliamentary Question on Helicopters
ME. NORMAN N. DODDS, Member of Parliament for Dartford, asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation on the 8th of December, 1954, "if, in view of the rescue by a United States helicopter from the South Goodwin lightship when all...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Agois Minas
Islay, Inner Hebrides - At 7.40 a.m.
on 8th September, 1968, the acting honorary secretary learnt that the s.s. Agois Minas of Monrovia was aground about two miles from Porthaven and a land party were going out to search....
The Curved After End of the Tunnel Cant Is Built Up In Position of Agba Laminates Scarphed on to Solid Mahogany for the Straight Run Forward the Building Batten Can Once A
The curved after end of the tunnel cant is built up, in position, of agba laminates scarphed on to solid mahogany for the straight run forward. The building batten can once again be seen at the top of the picture.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs