LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Men of Bumpstead and District Branch
Men of Bumpstead and District branch are not afraid to grab an oar and jump into their pulling lifeboat Sir William Hilary. Guiding her through the streets of Steeple Bumpstead as part of the local carnival can be a profitable task for this... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wasp
On the 22nd September, during a heavy gale from S.S.W., the smack Wasp, of Belfast, had her sails blown away, and drove ashore at Kingmore, in Dundrum Bay. The Memorial Life-boat put off to her assistance and rescued the crew, consisting of...
A Trawler
Portaskaig, Isle of Islay.—9th March, 1938. A trawler had been wrecked at Smuall Point, but eight of her crew of eleven were rescued from the shore by men with lines; the other three had been washed away and lost.—Rewards, £8...
An Aeroplane (1)
Dover, Kent.—16th February. An aeroplane had been reported to have dived into the sea, but it had come down to within a few feet of the sea and had then flown away.—Partly permanent paid crew: Rewards, £l 18s..
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—12th August.
Four people who were marooned on the rocks near Pendine refused to be taken off by the life-boat, although warned that they would not otherwise be able to get away for some hours.—Rewards,...
An Aeroplane (1)
FEB. 16TH. - DOVER, KENT. An aeroplane had been reported to have dived into the sea, but it had come down to within a few feet of the sea and had then flown away.- Partly permanent paid crew : Rewards, £1 18s..
Nestlea and Dereske (1)
NOVEMBER 1 8 - 2 0TH. - BALTIMORE, COURTMACSHERRY, AND BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. About 10.30 A.M. a wireless message, which had been picked up at Cork, was received at Baltimore that the steamer Nestlea, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, had been attacked...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
CADGWITH, CORNWALL.—At midnight, on the 13th January, 1868, a light being observed on or near the Vrogue Rocks, in a strong wind from the W.S.W., and a heavy ground sea, the Western Commercial Traveller life-boat was despatched to as-...
Category: Services
Thorium
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 7.45 Oft the night of the llth of January, 1951, the Formby coastguard reported that the motor cruiser Thorium, of Liver- pool, laden with 600 tons of limestone, had wirelessed from near the Lune Buoy that...
The Converted Ship's Boat Shandra
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 7.30 on the evening of the 16th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a boat was in difficulties near the Q16 buoy in the Queen's Channel. A strong westerly wind was blowing with a...