LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat As Ambulance
ON the evening of Christmas Day the Life-boat at St. Ives was launched in response to signals from the Godrevy Lighthouse. The Boat was launched over the soft sand with considerable difficulty, some of the seventy-five launchers going into...
Category: Services
Alexandra, of Whitstable
SEPTEMBER 14TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 5.55 in the evening a message was received from a call-box at Westcliff that men could be seen clinging to the mast of a yacht which had sunk, close to the Loway Buoy. A strong squally...
Gleneden (2)
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT MOELFRE JANUARY 28TH - 29TH. - HOLYHEAD, AND MOELFRE, ANGLESEY, AND LLANDUDNO. CAERNARVONSHIRE.
At 7.30 in the evening of the 29th of January, 1940, a message came to the Moelfre life-boat station...
The Cork Waist Life-Belt
N the 22nd number of this Journal we described these life-belts, with which all the life-boat crews in connexion with the NA- TIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION are provided, and which they are required to wear on every occasion of their going...
Category: Articles
January (1)
JANUARY MEETING LITTLEHAMPTON, SUSSEX. Three boats were out fishing on the 11th November, 1939, off Littlehampton, when the engine of one, the Margaret, broke down. Another boat, the Duchess of York, promised to tow her in after she had set...
Category: Services
Sjofna, of Oslo (1)
NOVEMBER 23RD. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL, AND CLOVELLY, DEVON.
At 2.30 in the morning the Padstow coastguard telephoned that news had been received from the naval authorities at Falmouth that a ship was ashore at Knap Head, near...
Welbeck
Aberdeen.—At 6.37 in the morning of the 13th of January, 1949, informa- tion was received from the Pilot Station that a vessel was aground to the north of the north pier, Aberdeen Bay, but was not making signals of...
Provider
TO THE HAVEN Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 10.30 a.m. on 4th November, 1963, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that a fishing coble was still at sea in rapidly deteriorating weather conditions.
At n o'clock the...
A Ship’s Boat
JANUARY 3RD. - WALMER, KENT. At 5.49 in the evening the Deal coastguard reported red flares east-by-north about four miles distant. A south-west gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and squalls of rain and sleet. The motor life-boat Charles...
(Below Left) Crimdon Dene April 10: R Kirkland An Exeuctive Committee Member of the Ancient Order of Foresters and T P Reynolds Honorary Secretary of the Ilb Stat
(Below, left) Crimdon Dene, April 10: R. Kirkland, an exeuctive committee member of the Ancient Order of Foresters, and T. P. Reynolds, honorary secretary of the ILB station, at the handing-over ceremony.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs