LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Cut off by tide SOME CHILDREN cut off by the tide on rocks near Seafield Colliery, Kirkcaldy, were reported to the honorary secretary of Kinghorn ILB station by HM Coastguard at 1430 on Thursday, July 29.
The rocks, an...
An Aeroplane (5)
FEBRUARY 9TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 3.50 P . M . the coastguard reported a British aeroplane in difficulties, and a few minutes later the news came that the aeroplane was down in the sea. Her position was given at...
The Heroes of the Life-Boat
THERE'S a brave and gallant host Worthy of Britannia's boast, Lions of our sea-girt coast When there's danger on the sea.
Midst the tempest's blaze and blare, Thunder roll and lightning glare, They have...
Category: Poetry
175 Years
A TIME TO PAUSE AND LOOK BACK AROUND THE BEGINNING of the nineteenth century 31 'Original' lifeboats built by Henry Greathead of South Shields were established in ports and harbours scattered all round the British Isles. Not a great...
Category: Articles
The Royal Bank of Scotland
Take credit for saving lives at sea The Royal Bank Of SCQljIagdjf Royal National uSJl Lifeboat SUNS? s* To help RNLI today, you don't have to change your shopping habits, just your credit card.
It's easy and it...
Category: Advertisement
An Irish Lights Steamer
DECEMBER 19TH. - ROSSLARE HARF BOUR, AND KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.
An Irish Lights steamer bad been bombed and sunk by German aeroplanes, when carryto ing reliefs for light-ships from Rosslare to the Coningbeg Light-vessel, but...
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FEBRUARY 10TH. - STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES.
Rockets had been reported north of Pabby Island, but when the life-boat was nearing the position given, she intercepted signals saying that an aeroplane crash was suspected and that...
A Rowing Boat
THREE MEN LANDED FROM ROWING BOAT Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 21st October, 1962, news was received that a man in a canoe had left Llandudno at 9.15 that morning and had not returned. A fresh south-east wind...
High Seas
More lifeboat stations as seen from above.Aerofilms is offering copies of these photographs at well below normal rates - and donating 25% of the print price to the RNLI. Prices: Sin by Sin - £17.63, 10in by 10in - £27.03, 12in by...
Category: Articles
Gramsbergen
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 2.26 early on the morning of the 27th of November, 1954, the coastguard tele- phoned that the motor vessel Grams- bergen, of Holland, had run ashore in Fishguard harbour. At 3.5 the life- boat White Star was...