LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Corbon, of Newcastle
Early on the morning of the 7th April, 1866, signals of distress were seen by the beachmen in the direction of the Cockle Sand. The weather was hazy, with a strong breeze blowing from E.N.E.
The Birmingham No. 2 life-boat,...
November (1)
NOVEMBER MEETING MARGATE, KENT. At nine o’clock on the night of the 5th of July, 1946, the Margate coastguard asked a local boatman to go to the help of the fishing boat Barbie, which appeared to be drifting seawards. A light south-west...
Category: Services
White Cloud
FREED FROM SANDS At 7.40 p.m. on 25th April, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser ashore on the Hook Sands had fired a red rocket. There was a moderate south-easterly breeze with a choppy sea and a flooding...
Ann, of Torquay
On the night of the 23rd March the services of this valuable life-boat were again brought into requisition. During a ter- rific gale of wind from the S., and a very heavy sea, the beachmen on the look-out had observed a vessel driving with...
Centenaries of Life-Boat Stations. Presentation of Vellums Signed By the Prince of Wales
LAST year the Institution presented Vellums to seventeen Life-boat Stations which had been in existence for a century and over. Up to the end of July this year seven more Stations received the same honour,* and since then Vellums have been...
Category: Articles
Aurelia
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 8.30 on the evening of the 5th of June, 1954, the Formby coastguard rang up to say that the coaster Talacre, which was at anchor in the estuary of the River Dee, had reported that a yacht with two youths on board had...
A Boat (1)
Swanage, Dorset - At 7.24 a.m. on 7th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat was in difficulties 150 yards offshore opposite the Grand Hotel. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 7.45 in a fresh south...
Frederik
MARCH 30TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 3.30 A.M. a small vessel was reported to be aground on Whitby Rock, but no distress signals had been made. Fishing boats leaving harbour had gone to her help. A strong northerly wind was...
Four Bronze Medals for Shore-Boat Services
Newhaven (Sussex), South Shields (Northumberland).
THE Institution has awarded Bronze Medals for gallantry in saving life to four men, all four of whom ran great risk of losing their lives.
On the...
Category: Medals
'A stark reminder'
The 60th anniversary of one of the RNLI’s most tragic days was marked at Arbroath in October.
Six crewmen died when the lifeboat Robert Lindsay was struck by huge waves close to the harbour and capsized on 27 October 1953....
Category: Articles