LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Book Reviews
0 It must be almost impossible to write an uninteresting book about the lifeboat service but equally difficult to do full justice to the subject. A. D.
Farr has achieved the difficult task of writing a splendidly...
Category: Articles
Win a Trip for Two on the Orient-Express
Photos: Venice Simplon Orient- Ex press. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On July 12 at the Baltic Exchange London His Excellency the Greek Ambassador
On July 12, at the Baltic Exchange, London, His Excellency The Greek Ambassador presented nautical gallantry medals to the men who were coxswain and crew ofSt Peter Port lifeboat when, on January 4, 1979, she had, together with helicopters,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sailfin
TRAWLER PULLED CLEAR Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 10.15 a-m- °n 20th February, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Sailfin of North Shields had grounded on Newcombe Sands. The lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution (continued.)
RAMSGATE.—At about 2.20 A.M., on the 5th May, during a fresh wind from the N.N.W., signal guns and rockets were fired from' the North Sand Head and Gull Lightships. The Vulcan steam-tug and Life-boat Bradford were manned as quickly as...
Category: Services
Above: Eight Volunteers Lost At Sea In 1947 Are Remembered In Stained Glass
Above: Eight volunteers lost at sea in 1947 are remembered in stained glass. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Life-Boats
HARWICH, ESSEX ; POLKERRIS and FOWEY, CORNWALL BULL BAY, ANGLESEY ; TROON and PORT ERROLL, SCOTLAND. — It having been found necessary to replace the Life-boats at these stations by new boats, the crews were as usual called upon to furnish...
Category: Articles
Tadorna
At 2 A.M.
| on 15th November, during a strong S.E.
! gale and very heavy sea, signals of | distress were observed from a vessel I about five miles from Ballycotton. The | alarm was given, ...
Dosinia
DEC. 21ST. - CROMER, NORFOLK. Information was received shortly before 2 A.M.
from the coastguard that a vessel had struck a mine near the Haisborough Light-vessel.
A light southerly wind was blowing, with...
The Mostyn Pilot Vessel
THREE LIFE-BOATS SEARCH FOR PILOT VESSEL Hoylake, Cheshire. At 5.31 on the afternoon of the 10th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that the Rhyl life-boat had launched to search for the Mostyn pilot vessel, which was...