LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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MARCH 27TH. - AMBLE, NORTH-UMBERLAND. At midnight on the 26th March the coxswain was asked by the naval officer commanding the Tyne area to take a sealed message to Coquet Island, and the motor life-boat Elizabefh Newton, on temporary duty...
A Ship’s Raft
AUGUST 18TH. - PORT ASKAIG , ARGYLLSHIRE. During the morning a ship’s raft was seen being swept down the Sound of Islay. A moderate northerly breeze was blowing with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Duke of Connaught, on temporary duty at...
A Steamer
The Humber, Yorkshire.—22nd March, 1939. A steamer had collided with a trawler seventeen miles N.N.E. of the Humber. She was badly damaged and began to sink, but her crew were rescued by the trawler.—Permanent paid crew: Rewards,...
Two Boys from Wellington School
Two boys from We/ling/on School, Andy Baker and Mark Samuel, both aged 14 ears, cycled from Wellington to Torquay and back to raise money for the RNLI. The round trip was about 100 miles and the bovs raised £182 through... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Steamer (6)
SEPT. 6TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. Information had been received that a steamer appeared to have blown up seven miles off Shoreham Harbour, but although the life-boat made a wide search she found nothing. - Rewards, £7...
A Boat (9)
SEPT. 28TH. - DOVER, KENT. A small boat had been reported as capsized six miles from Dover in a rough sea, but the life-boat could find nothing. - Partly permanent paid crew : Rewards, £1 17s. 6d..
The S.S. Santa Maria
Nov. 10TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. The S.S. Santa Maria, of Genoa, was stranded seven miles S.E. of the Haisborough Lightvessel, but when the life-boat arrived she found that the vessel had been refloated.- Rewards, £33 1s. 6d..
Two Ship’s Boats
MARCH 1 1TH. - ARRANMORE, CO.
DONEGAL. Two ship’s boats, assumed to be from a ship that had been attacked, were reported several miles to the westward of the island, but they could not be found.- Rewards, £19 11s..<...
An Aeroplane (44)
APRIL 13TH. - BARROW, LANCASHIRE.
A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but her crew were picked up by atrawler about twenty miles N.W. of Morecambe Bay lightship and the life-boat was recalled by wireless....
Verbania
MARCH 18TH. - AITH, SHETLANDS.
News had been received through Wick Radio that the Italian steamer Verbania was in distress, seven miles N.E. of Foula, but the life-boat, which was out for fifteen hours, could find nothing. ...