LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Inlland Rover
Llandudno, with its hillclimbing trams and snowless ski slope, is something of a wonderland. So it may come as no surprise that the lifeboat station is in a rather unusual place and needs a tractor and Land Rover to tow the lifeboats half a...
Category: Articles
Your Letters
The future of maroons Sir - Are we to witness the total phasing out of the firing of maroons at our lifeboat stations? This issue must have been the subject of much debate during my periods at sea away from the UK, but I sincerely hope that...
Category: Correspondence
Star of Bethlehem
ROBIN HOOD'S BAY, YORKSHIRE.—The fishing coble Star of Bethlehem, of Scarborough, was seen some distance off the bay, on the morning of the 30th April, and, as the heavy sea then running'would render -it very dangerous for her to...
A Local Fishing Vessel
MAY 2ND. - HELVICK HEAD, CO, WATERFORD. A mine had become entangled in the trawl of a local fishing vessel, It exploded and blew up the vessel. Another fishing boat picked up one survivor, but the life-boat found only oil and wreckage.- -...
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SEPTEMBER 2ND. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
Red flares had been seen, but nothing could be found, and it was later reported that an RAF. rescue boat had picked up four airmen. - Rewards, £22 14s. 3d. (See Skegness, “Accounts of...
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Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At half past ten on the morning of the 1st of Febru- ary, 1950 the honorary secretary of the Wick life-boat station telephoned that a doctor wanted to be conveyed to Stroma, where medical aid was urgently needed. He...
United States Life-Saving Service
WE learn from the Annual Report of the United States Life-saving Service lately issued that on the 30th of June, 1887, there were 218 stations, 166 being on the Atlantic, 44 on the Lakes, seven on the Pacific, and one at the Falls of the...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
BALLYWALTER, Co. DOWN.— On the morning of the 4th January, 1892, while a moderate gale of wind was blowing from the N.N.E., with strong hail squalls and a heavy sea, signals of distress were seen in the direction of the Ship Rock, about a...
Category: Services
The S.S. Speedwell
GOELBSTON.—The No. 1 Life-boat, the Mark Lane, was launched at 1.45 P.M. on the 17th of January, during a strong S.E.
by E. wind and a heavy sea, to the assistance of the s.s. Speedwell, of Yarmouth, which had grounded on...
A Fishing Coble
The Life-boat B. Wood, stationed at this place, went out on the 6th Feb., to rescue the crew and some fishermen who were on board the Nor- wegian ship Martha, which had stranded three days previously off Hornsea. The men were engaged...