LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Essex Lance
MARCH 13TH - 16TH. - CROMER, AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At about 2.35 P.M. information came to Cromer from the coastguard that a vessel, which seemed to be sinking, was about two and a half miles N.W. of Cromer, and was being...
The S.S. Taunton
The s.s. Taunton, of Liverpool, whilst bound from New- port to Rouen, on the 27th December, with a cargo of stores for the French government, was in danger owing to her anchors not holding. When she was about one mile from Gwythian Beach,...
Matthew Lethbridge Jnr Bem: Coxswain of St.Mary's Lifeboat By Joan Davies
THE ONLY LIFEBOATMAN AT PRESENT SERVING TO HAVE BEEN AWARDED THREE SILVER MEDALS FOR GALLANTRY by Joan Davies 'Grandfather . . . he was coxswain before Dad; and my Uncle Jim and Dad were both in the lifeboat with...
Category: Articles
Rnli news
AGM 1988 The RNLI's annual meetings for 1988 will take place on Tuesday, May 10 at the South Bank, London. The governors' annual general meeting takes place in the Queen Elizabeth Hall at 11.30 am and the annual presentation of...
Category: Articles
Services of Life-Boats
NEWCASTLE, DUNDRUM BAY.—On the 12th December, 1858, the French lugger Louise Amelie got embayed and was driven on shore near Newcastle in a heavy gale from S.S.E.- The life-boat belonging to the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, stationed at...
Category: Services
July (1)
ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At 6.30 in the evening of the 3rd of March, 1946, the police reported that two boys were cut off by thetide on the rocks at Lee. A strong northerly breeze was blowing and raising a rough sea.
Mr. S....
Category: Services
Yacht We're Here
The cutter-yacht We're Here, of Burnham-ou-Crouch, was in grave peril of being lost on the Castle Rocks, Hastings, in the early morning of the 19th August. The yacht, with the owner, his wife, man, and two dogs on board, left Folkestone...
Rask (1)
Berwick - on - Tweed, Northumberland; and Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 7.35 in the morning on the 31st of January, 1950, the Berwick coastguard telephoned the Berwick life-boat authorities that a railway signalman had reported a vessel...
Life-Boat Christmas Card
The picture above is for the Life-boat Christmas card, 1950. It is a famous rescue of seventy years ago. The Ramsgate life-boat is going out to the help of the barque Indian Chief, wrecked on the Long Sand on January 5th,...
Category: Advertisement
Ingrid II and Thelas
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. — About 3.45 on the afternoon of the 26th of August, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was flying a distress signal near Holland Point. At 4.15 the life- boat Edward Z. Dresden was...