LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
IRB Launches. Rescues by IRBs in December were carried out by the following stations
Rescues by IRBs in December were carried out by the following stations: NORTH-WEST DISTRICT Morecambe, Lancashire - At 2.15 p.m. on 3rd December, 1966, the police were informed that a small boy angling from the shore was in difficulties...
Category: Services
Padstow Lifeboathouse at Trevose Head on the North Coast of Cornwall
Padstow lifeboathouse, at Trevose Head on the north coast of Cornwall, is at the foot of steep cliffs. On Sunday September 18, 1983, a new lift up these cliffs was formally opened by Captain P. K. C. Harris, HM Coastguard regional controller... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Goodwin Sands
THE Goodwin Sands have earned over and over again their grim description as '; the graveyard of ships." In them are sunk the timbers of hundreds of ships and the bones of thousands of seamen.
At low tide men have...
Category: Articles
The American Steamer Am-Mer-Mar
JANUARY 30TH. - WALMER, KENT. The American steamer Am-Mer-Mar had gone ashore on the Goodwin Sands, but she got off without help. - Rewards, £31 17s. 6d..
The Admiralty Drifter Nairnside
DECEMBER 28TH. - WHITEHILLS, BANFFSHIRE. At 4.50 in the evening the coastguard reported signals from a vessel about five miles north-east of Whitehills, but the signals could not be understood. A northerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea,...
The St. Gowan Lightvessel
On the night of the 21st-22nd Sep- tember, 1953, the Tenby life-boat rescued the crew of seven of the St.
Gowan lightvessel, which was in distress in very bad weather. For a full account of this service and for the awards...
Mrs Ann Maxwell Chairman of Norton Rnli In the Branch's Rent-Free Shop
Mrs Ann Maxwell, chairman of Norton RNLI in the branch's rent-free shop. (Photo Yorkshire Regional Newspapers Ltd). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Scene at Calshot Spit on 28Th July 1972 When the Ernest William and Elizabeth Ellen Hinde Was Named By Lady Woods Wife of the Former Chairman of the RNLI
The scene at Calshot Spit on 28th July, 1972, when the Ernest William and Elizabeth Ellen Hinde was named by Lady Woods, wife of the former Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O. The life-boat, which has... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Empire Conleith, of London
FEBRUARY 15TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESS- SHIRE. At 4.5 in the afternoon the Wick coastguard reported that the S.S.
Empire Conleith, of London, bound with coal for Iceland, had broken down three miles north of Dunnet Head and was...
The Sailing Boat Berlin
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At one o'clock in the afternoon of the 20th of Novem- ber, 1949, the St. Anthony coastguard reported that a sailing boat was making for Portscatho. The weather was bad and she was in a dangerous position.
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