LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Income and Expenditure for 1934
Expenditure.
£ s. d.
s. d.
32,778 19 11 100 12 5 13,513 11 9 406 1 6 10,707 17 3,321 13 459 17 245 10 61,534 3 8 New Life-boats for the following stations :—On...
Category: Accounts
Success
On the 24th November, the/Life-boat and steam-tug again went out, during a strong E.N.E. gale and a tremendous sea, at about 10.45 P.M., and brought into Ramsgate harbour the fishing - vessel Success, which had just been brought to anchor,...
A Yacht (5)
JUNE 21ST. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. The Kentish Knock Light-vessel had reported that a yacht had carried away her mast, but the yacht cleared herself and went on her way.-Rewards, £4 15s. 6d..
Maud Mary
DEC. 17TH. -POOLE AND BOURNEMOUTH, AND SWANAGE, DORSET. The schooner Maud Mary, flying the Polish flag, had gone ashore west of the Old Harry Rocks, but the crew got away in their own boat.
- Rewards: Poole and Bournemouth...
150th Anniversary
H.M. COASTGUARD celebrated its 1 50th anniversary on 15th January, having been formally established in 1822 as the 'Coast Guard' following the report of a 'committee appointed by His Royal Highness The Prince Regent to enquire...
Category: Articles
Bessie Jones
BLACKPOOL.—On the 26th February, at 7.30 A.M., the coxswain of the Life-boat was informed that a vessel had just been seen on the Salthouse Bank with a signal of distress flying. The wind was blowing a gale from the N.W., and the sea was...
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Three stranded men HM COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Torbay lifeboat station at 1050 on Tuesday August 14, 1979, that three men were stranded on rocks at Southdown Cliff, two miles south of Berry Head, and that it looked as...
Meetings of Committee
Thursday, 4th March, 1852. THOMAS WILSON, Esq., in the Chair.
Confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting, and of the Finance, Wreck, and Reward Sub-Committees.
Read letter from the Local Committee at...
Category: Committee
November (1)
NOVEMBER MEETING WALMER, KENT. Shortly after 6 in the evening of the 17th August, 1941, a British Beaufort bomber crashed into the sea between Kingsdown and Walmer, some 400 yards off shore. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing, with a choppy sea....
Category: Services
Every second counts
Two lifeguards raced to reach a kitesurfer as he was dragged under water towards rocks. Somehow they had to slow him down
On the afternoon of Tuesday 7 June, RNLI lifeguards watched a...
Category: Articles