LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ethiopia
MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.—On the 25th January a strong gale was experienced from N.N.E., accompanied by a heavy sea, very cold weather and snowstorms, and the crew of the Life-boat Star of Hope were on duty all night, as there were three vessels at...
An Aeroplane (56)
JUNE 17TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE. A trawler ashore on the Mull of Kintyre had been reported by coastguards on the Irish coast, but it was found that, she was a trawler which had been ashore since January, and owing to the extra -...
To the President, from the Gold Coast
SOME years ago reference was made in The Life-boat to letters which had been received from the Gold Coast, in one of which the writer, evidently under the impression that the Institution was a general stores, asked for its catalogues, and...
Category: Correspondence
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1932
1932.
Jan. 1.
„ 3.
Time of Launching.
2.40 p.m.
9.30 a.m.
1.45 p.m.
0. 1.10 a.m.
„...
Category: Services
June
Launches 29. Lives rescued 9.
JUNE 3RD. - NEW BRIGHTON , CHESHIRE. At 9.30 A.M. the coxswain was informed that the fishing boat Speedwell, of New Brighton, had broken from her moorings and gone aground between the Perch...
Category: Services
Sarah and Silver
On the 26th February the No. 1 Lifeboat Augusta was again launched at 12.30 P.M., the fishing fleet having again been overtaken by a storm, the wind blowing strongly from the E. and the sea being very heavy. . Most of the boats had returned...
Lifeboat Services
South Eastern Division Storm-disabled sloop THE DUTY OFFICER at the Needles Coastguard saw a red distress flare to westward, estimated two to three miles distant, at 0108 on Sunday, September 14, 1975. The honorary secretary of Yarmouth,...
Category: Services
Former Coxswain of Walton-On-The-Naze Lifeboat Mr Jonas Oxley Who Has Helped to Save Hundreds of Lives at Sea Is Putting Brush to Canvas
Former coxswain of Walton-on-the-Naze lifeboat, Mr Jonas Oxley, who has helped to save hundreds of lives at sea, is putting brush to canvas to record the work of the lifeboatmen. Early this year he completed a painting of Walton's first... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dangerous Launch at Gourdon
ON 17th December, 1938, a S.E. by E. gale was blowing at Gourdon, Kincardineshire, with, flurries of sleet.
An extremely heavy sea was running, and was breaking heavily far outside the harbour. Half an hour after midday a...
Category: Services
The S.S. Whinstone, of Preston
ON 25th November, just before eight o'clock in the morning, the Donna Nook Life-boat went out in answer to signals of distress. The conditions could not i She found the Whinstone at anchor, after have been worse. A whole gale was I...