LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter
THE LOSS of Penlee lifeboat and her crew stunned people throughout Great Britain and Ireland and thousands of messages of sympathy from many parts of the world were received by the bereaved families. Before she was lost, the lifeboat Solomon...
Category: Articles
David Scott Cowper's Ex- Watson Class Lifeboat Mabel E. Holland Beached at Depot Bay, Fort Ross to Carry Out Temporary Repairs During Her Epic Cicumnavigati
David Scott Cowper's ex- Watson class lifeboat Mabel E. Ho/land beached at Depot Bay, Fort Ross to carry out temporary repairs during her epic cicumnavigation via the North West Passage. One of the illustrations from Northwest Passage... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Societies
The Royal National Life-boat Institution agreed to a request made at the International Life-boat Conference that it should as a distributing centre for information which may be of general interest to all Life-boat Societies. The Institution...
Category: Articles
Ilfracombe Visitors' Book
IT should be of interest to Life-boat workers, particularly those connected with Stations at seaside resorts, to read the following summary of the visitors' book kept at the Ilfracombe Boat-house in the summer of last year. During the...
Category: Articles
Tough Choices
The lifeguards had been watching the kayakers for a while. It was raining on Pembrokeshire’s Newport Sands, and the only beach goers to keep an eye on were ‘hardcore’ dog walkers. Two men in single kayaks and two children, young girls in a...
Category: Articles
Harbour Lights Uk
nest This 141 ft. tall lighthouse, built in 1906, guards Weymouth Bay md the treacherous currents on the South Coast.
IWll.M.J Bill Dorset Eddy stone Lighthouse Devon 8x4 tinted limited edition MMibUc 2001 onfy £77.50...
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Open All Hours...
The RNLI's Open Days on 23 and 24 July were more popular than in any previous year, with more visitors, more displays and more things to see than ever before. With free access to two separate sites accurate estimates of the numbers...
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Margaret Hobley
During a moderate northerly gale and heavy sea, on the 6th October, a vessel was observed about 7 A.M. to make signals denoting that she required help. She had been riding to anchor in the Princess Channel, but in a heavy squall lost both...
Provider and Margaret Ann
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—At 12.20 on the afternoon of the 23rd of September, 1957, the coxswain reported that two fishing cobles were at sea in very bad weather conditions. He had spoken to Flamborough coastguard, who had said that one of the...
The Steamers Lisburn & Baronminto, and S.S. Patia, Clumber Hall and Alcora
OCTOBER 30TH. - PETERHEAD, AND FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 6.30 in the morning a message was received at Peterhead from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore on the rocks a mile east of Rattray Head, which is about ten...