LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pilot Star (1)
Lowestoft, Suffolk, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—While returning from the fishing grounds to Yarmouth on the 1st December, 1937, the steam drifter Pilot Star, of Kirkcaldy, carrying a crew of ten, stranded on the Holm Sands. A...
The Passenger Ferry Laerling
Thirty one passengers rescued from ferry aground on rocks The Chairman of the the Institution, Michael Vernon, has written to the coxswain and crew of the Lerwick lifeboat after the rescue of 31 passengers, mostly elderly, from a stranded...
Alexandra
The steam trawler Alexandra, whilst bound from Iceland to Boulogne with a cargo of fish, ran on to the rocks about three quarters of a mile N.W. of Skinningrove jetty, during a very thick fog on the 13th June. Information of the casualty was...
Charles
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT WHITBY FEBRUARY 3RD. - WHITBY, AND SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
At nine o’clock at night the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station at Whitby that a vessel was ashore near Saltwick. The tide was...
IRB Launches. Rescues by IRBs in January were carried out by the following stations
NORTH-WEST DISTRICT Flint - At 10.44 a.m. on 25th January, 1967, news was received that someone was in distress in the river Dee. The IRB was launched at 10.52 in a calm sea and proceeded up river. She found a wild- fowler who had...
Category: Services
A 23' Westerly Pageant Yacht
Electric storm INFORMATION THAT MOTOR YACHT Zaire was standing by a yacht in distress three miles south west of Anvil Point came from HM Coastguard to Swanage lifeboat station deputy launching authority at 1915 on Friday, September 24,...
At High Tide, All But the Tip of the Rock (Circled) at Aberporth Beach Was Submerged
At High Tide, All But The Tip Of The Rock (Circled) At Aberporth Beach Was Submerged. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A PADDLE TOO FAR
How many people does it take to save a life? As a mother and son found out last summer, it can take a village
It was almost 5am on Tuesday 14 August when the crew at Skerries Lifeboat Station were woken by their pagers. A...
Category: Articles
Two Boys from Wellington School
Two boys from We/ling/on School, Andy Baker and Mark Samuel, both aged 14 ears, cycled from Wellington to Torquay and back to raise money for the RNLI. The round trip was about 100 miles and the bovs raised £182 through... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Pyrope
The Christmas Gales.
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat's Four Launches in one Day.
THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy...