LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Raft
Wight.—19th August. A raft was seen drifting. It came ashore with a dead body on it.— Rewards, £4 10s. 6d..
A Boat and Margaret and Dennis
Tynemouth, Northumberland. On the afternoon of the 1st July, 1961, the life- boat Tynesider was launched to take out members of the Tynemouth and South Shields ladies' life-boat guilds.
After returning from the trip she...
Gypsy Rover
Leapt to the rescue THE STORMS WHICH SWEPT ACROSS THE English Channel on August Bank Holiday Monday, 1986, continued unabated the next day and it was towards the end of the afternoon on Tuesday, August 26 that a yacht in Alderney Harbour...
The S.S. Harriet
On. the 1st January, in response to a report made by one of the Great Eastern Railway Steamers that a vessel was ashore on the South Shipwash Sands, flying signals of distress, the Steam Life-boat City of Glasgow was launched. When nearing...
Reading's Successful Year
30 Old Subscribers Lost. 42 New Subscribers Found.
IN sending to the Institution a cheque for £419, being the contribution from the Reading Branch for the Branch year which ended on 30th September, Mr.
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Category: Branches
A Boat
SHORT OF FUEL At 10.47 a.m. on 22nd December, 1965, the coastguard told the honorary secretary he had received a message from the Royal Sovereign lightvessel that there was a small boat alongside with three men who had not enough fuel to...
Showboat - and Carriage
So often the Cinderella... This year a sizeable stand at the London Boat Show enabled the Talus tractor and sophisticated Mersey launching carriage to share the limelight with the lifeboat they launch. Photo Mike Anker, Take Two. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Baldur
KINGSDOWN, KENT.—At 9.20 A.M. on the 13th April signals were fired by the South Sands Head Light-vessel indicating that a vessel was in distress on the Goodwin Sands. The crew of the Life-boat Charles Hargrave were quickly mustered and the...
Mirrie
On the 31st December the Life- boat Elizabeth Moore Garden was launched, and proceeded to the assistance of the smack Mirre, stranded on the rocks under Summerlies Point. A heavy ground sea had set in after the Mirre grounded, which made the...
A Fishing Boat
On the 6th January two members of the Life- boat's crew were out fishing in one of the small boats belonging to Skegness, when a north-westerly gale sprang up, and shortly after three o'clock in the after- noon their mast carried...