LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Induna, of Egremont and The Yachts, The Puffin, Sheila, and Pastime
JUNE 10TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE. About 12.30 in the afternoon the honorary secretary of the Hoylake life-boat station noticed a yacht sailing on an easterly course towards the Rock Channel, but running into shallow water and...
The Induna, of Egremont and The Yachts, The Puffin, Sheila, and Pastime (1)
JUNE 10TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE. About 12.30 in the afternoon the honorary secretary of the Hoylake life-boat station noticed a yacht sailing on an easterly course towards the Rock Channel, but running into shallow water and...
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Category: Articles
Annual Report
AT the Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION held at the London Tavern, on Tuesday, the 15th day of March, 1864, the Eight Honourable Sir JOHN S. PAKINGTON, Bart., G.C.B., M.P., in the Chair, The following Report...
Category: Annual Reports
Zephyr, of Baniff
Again, on the 11th January last, the Ramsgate life-boat went out in tow of the steam-tug Vulcan to the rescue of the crew of the schooner Zephyr, of Banff, which was totally wrecked on the north part of the Goodwin Sands. The wind was strong...
And (Left) the Following Week Was Taken to Sea By Crew Members Peter Evans (I) and John Clowes for An Inspection of the River As Part of a Drive to Improve Local Lifesaving
and (left) the following week was taken to sea by Crew Members Peter Evans (I.) and John Clowes for an inspection of the river as part of a drive to improve local lifesaving facilities.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Past and Present
50 years ago LIFE-BOAT BULLETIN No.24 1946 A year of peace In the twelve months from the end of the war in Europe on 8 May 1945, life-boats rescued 677 lives.
That is an average of 56 lives a month and is only 50 lives less...
Category: Articles
Mattias
Two incidents on opposite sides of the English Channel during January resulted in seven seamen being landed from leaking commercial vessels.
Safely ashore - one. The four crew from the coaster Manias are pictured (right)...
Ida, of Glasgow
BRIGHTON.—At about 9 P.M. on the 6th January, when it was blowing hard from S. by E., the barque Ida, of Glasgow, bound from Havre to Pensacola, drove ashore on the beach at this town. A communication was established with the rocket...
Phan Khu, of London
Weymouth, Dorset - At 5.7 a.m. on 6th April, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was in difficulties one mile south east of Portland Bill. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her moorings at 5.30....