LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Kindly Light
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— About 5.30 on the evening of the 2nd of February, 1956, the life-boat assis- tant mechanic rang up to say that the wife of a fisherman had reported that her husband had not returned in his local fishing...
Life-Boat Crew at Buckingham Palace
H.M. the Queen invested each of the five members of the crew of the Moelfre life-boat who took part in the rescue from the coaster Hindlea on the 27th October, 1959, with the silver medal for gallantry in saving life at sea at Bucking- ham...
Category: Medals
A Launch at Aldeburgh In 1872
The Pulling and Sailing Life-boat " George HounsfieU." She served from 1870-1890, and rescued 99 lives. - View image in PDF
She is still at Aldeburgh, and is used as a store on the beach.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Admiralty Salvage Craft L.C. 18
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT SALCOMBE DECEMBER 4TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON. At 9.15 at night the coastguard at Hope Cove reported a vessel ashore at the lower end of Skerries, three miles to the east of Start Point. Shewas the Admiralty salvage craft...
Hille Oldendorff
Sennen Cove, Cornwall - At 11.20 a.m. on 30th March, 1966, the port medical officer at Penzance informed the honorary secretary that the m.v. Hille Oldendorff, of Lubeck, which was about nine miles north west of the Longships lighthouse,...
The Dutch Motor Ship Ooster Haven
DECEMBER 17TH. - EXMOUTH, DEVON.
At 4.20 in the afternoon a call was received from a vessel in distress off Beer Head. A strong south-south-west wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat Catherine Harriet...
Thistle
On the llth November, while the wind was blowing a whole gale from the S.S.W., the ketch Thistle^ of Plymouth, was observed on the Brake Sand. The Lifeboat pnt off at about 2.30 P.M., and proceeded to the vessel through very heavy broken...
Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1919
The Editor acknowledges most gratefully the active and valuable co-operation which the Life-boat cause has received from the head teachers and staffs of schools throughout the country, and would appeal for further help in the work of...
Category: Articles
Sunbeam
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—On the afternoon of the 27th May the coastguard telephoned that a small vessel was aground on Scroby sands, bearing N.E. by E. from Yarmouth coastguard station. A rather heavy sea was...
The Danish Schooner The Mogens Koch
Newhaven (Sussex).
On 7th December, the day on which the gales reached their height, the Newhaven Motor Life-boat was called out just before 7.30 in the morning to the help of a Danish schooner, the Mogens Koch, which had...