LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter
FIGURES for the first nine months of the year show remarkable increases in the numbers of services carried out by life-saving vessels. All three categories of life-saving vessel with which the Institution is concerned, its lifeboats, its own...
Category: Articles
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Pilot
WINCHELSEA, SUSSEX.—A telephone message was received from the coastguard at Galloways, stating that a ketch was ashore, on the morning of the 23rd February. The Life-boat John William Dudley was launched at 8.40, in a rough sea, a strong S....
Pike, of Shoreham
On the 27th January the brig Pike, of Shoreham, was wrecked on the North Scroby Sands, during a fresh breeze at S., with a heavy, tumbling sea. As soon as the signals of distress were observed, the Caister No. 2 Life-boat, the Boys, was...
A Nice Shock
A nice shock - David Farr Heft) of Aire-Serv and Paul Topham of Mr Electric hand over £2,400 to Bromsgrove RNLt branch chairman Mary Hampton.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (76)
AUGUST 11TH. - TORBAY, AND EXMOUTH, DEVON. An aeroplane had been reported down between Exmouth and Teignmouth, but after putting out both lifeboats were recalled. - Rewards : Torbay, £3 17s. 6d. ; Exmouth, £7 0S. 6d.
The Life-Boat Dog of Aldeburgh
All kinds of memorials have been erected to man but among the more unusual is this one portraying the life-size model of a dog. It can be seen on the front at Aldeburgh on the Suffolk coast overlooking a children's model yacht pond. It... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
T.T.H.
Clacton-on-Sea, and Walton and Frinton, Essex.—Early on the morning of the 27th January, the barge T.T.H., of London, bound from Brightlingsea for Chatham with a load of shingle, got into difficulties. She lost her rudder and started a bad...
An Angling Boat
Injured angler A RED FLARE in the Bracklesham Bay area was spotted at 1005 on Sunday, December 7, 1986 by Hayling Island Crew Member Graham Raines, who advised Solent Coastguard. The station honorary secretary agreed to alert the crew and...
Islander
The Wreck of the "Islander." A TRAGIC disaster occurred on the coast of Cornwall during a severe gale which struck the coast towards the end of August, when the cutter Islander, of the Royal Yacht Squadron, was driven ashore in...