LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Annie Crosfield
HOLYHEAD.—On the 8th May news was brought by a steamer that a three-masted schooner was wrecked on the Skerries.
The Life -boat Thomas Fielden was manned at 9 A.M., was towed by the steamer to the scene of the disaster, and...
An Aeroplane (121)
SEPTEMBER 30TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX.
At 4.19 P.M. the coastguard telephoned that an aeroplane - probably German - was down in the sea to the S.W. of Selsey Bill. A N.E.
breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea....
A Ship
On the 27th November a boat with four men in her was upset in the entrance to Teignmouth harbour, when attempting to board a vessel coming in.
One man succeeded in getting on board the ship, but the boat herself, with two...
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1872
CAPTAIN HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, K.G., R.N., in the Chair.
1.—Moved by the CHAIRMAN :— 1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the Officers of the Institution for the current year:—(vide second...
Category: Meetings
Message from the Director
By the time this letter is published I will have succeeded Rear Admiral Graham as director and secretary of the RNLI.
It is a tremendous honour and a considerable challenge to have been appointed by the committee of...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SEAHAM, DURHAM.—The seafaring popu-ation of this place having expressed a de- sire to have a life-boat, not only for the sake of assisting the crows of distressed vessels, but also that they might bo on- ! abled to help pilot and...
Category: Articles
Two Rafts
FEBRUARY 8TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESS-SHIRE. A northerly gale was blowing, with high confused seas and storms of snow and sleet when, at 2.30 in the afternoon, the Wick coastguard rang up the life-boat station to say that two miles to seaward of...
A Vampire Jet Aircraft
Dungeness, and Dover, Kent; and Hastings, Sussex.—About 9.25 on the night of the 18th of December, 1952, the Dungeness life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson had just returned from a service launch to a steamer aground a mile east of the...
The Danish Fishing Vessel Ove
Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 11.25 on the night of the 29th of April, 1957, the honorary secretary was visiting the life-boat station when he saw a small craft drifting broadside in the middle of the harbour. An attempt was made to communicate by...
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Category: Advertisement