LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Stand-off in the storm
When a fishing crew drifted close to a rocky coastline, powerless against vicious wind and waves, all their hopes lay with a helicopter crew and lifeboat volunteers
‘With the weather like it...
Category: Articles
Madeline Rickmers (1)
RAMSGATE,NORTH DEAL AND WALMER In response to signals fired by the North Sand Head and Gull Light-vessels, the Life-boats Bradford, of Ramsgate, Mary Sommerville, stationed at North Deal, and Civil Service No. 4, of Walmer, were launched on...
September (1)
BOURNEMOUTH, HAMPSHIRE. About 2.20 in the afternoon of Easter Sunday, the 21st of April, 1946, the pleasure craft Skylark sank in Bournemouth Bay about a mile off Alum Chine, with 70 or more people on board. The weather was fine and the sea...
Category: Services
SPECIAL DELIVERY
A LIMITED EDITION
I was interested to read in the autumn issue about the City of Sheffield’s return to the city that funded her. I was involved in raising an amount towards that boat when I was an honorary organiser in West...
Category: Articles
A Balloon from Germany
24th September. A balloon from Ger- many drifting towards land very low appeared likely to fall in the sea, but came down on Spittal beach.—Re- wards, £4 16s. 6d..
A Naval Launch from H.M.S. Battleaxe
Exmouth, Devon. — About two o'clock in the early morning of the 6th of July, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a motor boat appeared to be aground on the Maer Rocks, but no distress signals were being made and a private motor boat had...
(Top) His Grace the Duke of Atholl Addresses the Annual Meeting of the Scottish Lifeboat Council
(Top) His Grace The Duke of Atholl Addressess The Annual Meeting of the Scottish Lifeboat Council. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (64)
APRIL 24TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL.
An aeroplane was reported to have come down in the sea, hut nothing was found.- Rewards, £8 11s..
An Aeroplane (42)
JULY 7TH - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
An aeroplane was reported to have come down in the sea off Orfordness, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £26 17s..
An Aeroplane (82)
OCTOBER 12TH. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. An aeroplane was reported to have dived into the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £11 3s. 6d..