LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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
Happy Days
SEPTEMBER 8TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 7.30 P.M. the coastguard reported a motor boat flying a distress signal, and the motor life-boat Michael Stephens was launched at 7.55 P.M. The position given was one and a half miles...
Ashanti
JANUARY 16TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON. NORFOLK. At 1.51 P.M. the coastguard reported that a motor vessel was flying a distress signal south of Palling Look-out. A moderate N.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy...
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SEPTEMBER 2ND. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.
At 8.30 in the morning the medical officer of Yell telephoned for the life-boat to fetch a sick woman from Fetlar to Lerwick for hospital treatment. No other suitable vessel was...
Stay safe this summer
On the beach is a new safety guide created by the RNLI in partnership with the Eden Project. The guide aims to help beach users stay safe while having fun and covering everything from the meanings of safety flags to the treatment of...
Category: Articles
A Doctor's Ten Hours at Sea
Mr. James Hall, M.B., B.S., F.R C.S., who went out four times in the Walmer life-boat in forty hours to the help of sick seamen. In the first six months of the war, he went out to sick seamen more than eighty times, eight of them in the life... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Skibbereen Fishing Boat Sirus
SEPTEMBER 19TH. - BALTIMORE, CO.
CORK. During the morning a telephone message was received from Union Hall post office that a fishing boat was in difficulties.
A strong westerly breeze was blowing, with a...
Premuda
JANUARY 16TH. - MARGATE, RAMSGATE.
AND WALMER. KENT. At 9.30 P.M. a message was received at Margate from the Margate coastguard that an Italian steamer was sinking close to the North Goodwin Light-vessel. A strong N.E. wind...
Freya
YACHT FOUND WITH HEAVY LIST Margate, Kent. At 5.48 on the evening of Wednesday the 4th September, 1963, the coastguard passed an anticipatory message to the coxswain stating a sailing yacht was nearing the northwest Margate Sands, about...
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MARCH 1 6 T H . - BLACKPOOL, AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but it was found later to be a false alarm. - Rewards, Blackpool, £11 6s. 9d. ; Lytham - St. Annes, £8 6s....