LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (194)
JUNE 26TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
Shortly after 9 in the morning the R.A.F. reported, through the coastguard, that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea, and the motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee l910- 1935 was launched at...
The Invasion Barge L.C.V.P. 1058
AUGUST 30TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 9.10 in the morning the naval control reported that an invasion barge was lying near the Blacktail Spit Buoy with her engine broken down and nothing to secure her. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing...
An Aeroplane (90)
JUNE 25TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 2.25 A.M. the coastguard reported that a British bomber was believed to be down several miles to the eastward, and the motor life-boat J. B. Proudfoot, on temporary duty at this station, was...
Two American Landing Craft
JANUARY 17TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON.
At 2.45 in the afternoon the Hope Cove coastguard reported two American landing craft ashore on Thurleston Rock. A southsouth- east wind was blowing, with a moderately rough sea. The motor...
A Ship’s Boat
APRIL 22ND. - FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHENSHIRE.
At 7.32 A.M. the coxswain received a telephone message from the St. Ismael’s coastguard that the Royal Observer Corps at Carmarthen had reported throughthe Ferryside Police that a...
Maid of Kent
RYE.—The night patrol reported that signals of distress were being made by a vessel off the west end of Broom Hill on the 24th November. The crew of the Mary Stanford Life-boat were immediately assembled, and the Boat put off at 8...
The S.S Jersey Queen
OCTOBER 6TH. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.
At 7.15 P.M the coastguard at St. Anthony reported that distress signals had been seen about two and a half miles off the Point. A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing, with a very rough sea....
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Swimming cow saved Crew members at Douglas lifeboat station, Isle of Man, have received a certificate of commendation from the RSPCA following their rescue of a cow, which had got stuck in a rocky cove at the bottom of a...
Royal Connections
RNLI crew members and fundraisers were among the guests at the Buckingham Palace garden party on 14 July. Rhyl Coxswain Peter Robinson (pictured meeting HM The Queen) says: ‘It was an honour for my wife and myself to attend and we thoroughly...
Category: Articles
Twenty-Four Spanish Sailors Rescued. A Service By Ilfracombe, Appledore and Clovelly
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 154 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to May 31st, 1950 - 76,899 Twenty-Four Spanish Sailors Rescued A Service by Ilfracombe,...
Category: Services