LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
When Mr. Basil Dove, Lighthouse Keeper at Beachy Head, Injured Himself When He Fell Down a Flight of Steps, Eastbourne Life-Boat Went Alongside to Take Him Off
When Mr. Basil Dove, lighthouse keeper at Beachy Head, injured himself when he fell down a flight of steps, Eastbourne life-boat went alongside to take him off.
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Category: Photographs
The Motor Fishing Boats Comfort, Enterprise, Widgeon and Rosa
On the morning of the 26th September a strong south- erly breeze increased to a whole gale, making the sea very heavy at the harbour bar. The local motor fishing boats Comfort, Enterprise, Widgeon and Rosa were at sea, and the motor life-...
Abstracts of the Reports of the Coxswain Judges As to the Comparative Merits of the Pulling Life-Boats Which Competed In the Trials at Montrose, January — March, 1893
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Category: Articles
Gudveig and the Latvian Steamer Everene (1)
JANUARY 25TH. - HOLY ISLAND, AND NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
The Norwegian steamer Gudveig, of Oslo, and the Latvian steamer Everene, of Riga, had been sunk by mine or torpedo, but other steamers had picked up a...
The American Steamer Charles D. McIver, of Wilmington
AUGUST 5TH - 6TH. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS.
At 9.28 at night the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that the naval authorities requested the services of the life-boat for a vessel reported sinking. A south-east wind was blowing,...
The American Liberty Ship T. A. Johnston, of Pensecola (1)
DECEMBER 10TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET, AND BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.
About ten at night the coastguard reported to the Swanage life-boat station that a steamer was ashore off Egmont Point, west of St. Albans Head. The motor life...
West Wind and the Rhyl Yacht Club Rescue Launch
RESCUE LAUNCH AND DINGHY TOWED TO HARBOUR Rhyl, Flintshire. At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 30th September, 1962, the coastguard told the motor mechanic that a sailing dinghy had capsized near the entrance to the harbour. At 12.40 the...
In Memoriam. Captain the Hon. Henry Weyland Chetwynd, R.N.
THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has sustained a great loss by the death, on the 27th November last, of the late Captain CHETWYND, who had been a devoted and enthusiastic officer of the Committee for rather more than fourteen years....
Category: Obituaries
(Above) Leaving Jersey the Queen Mother Is Cheered on Her Way By the Lifeboat Crew Photograph By Courtesy of Jersey Evening Post
(Above) Leaving Jersey, The Queen Mother is cheered on her way by the lifeboat crew . . . - View image in PDF
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The Thousandth Member to Be Signed on at the London International Boat Show Last January Was Mr M S Bravery (R) With Him (I to R) Are Two of the Volunteer Enrolling Team Harold Appleton
The thousandth member to be signed on at the London International Boat Show last January was Mr M. S.
Bravery (r.). With him (I. to r.) are two of the volunteer enrolling team, Harold Appleton and Ian Taylor, Mrs Bravery... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs