LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Year's Work
Launches of Life-boats.
Including those in which no service was rendered.
Launches before the end of war on 8th May - - - - - - - 2 0 4 Launches after the end of war - - - - - - - - - - - 2 9 3 Total of...
Category: Annual Reports
Dorothy Watson
WHITBURN, Co. DURHAM.—While the schooner Dorothy Watson,of North Shields, was being towed by a steam-tug in company with another vessel in a S.E. wind and a strong ground swell and surf on the 10th July, she was caught by the breakers and...
Florida
RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS.—'On the 23rd March, a vessel was seen ashore on the Goodwin Sands. The Vulcan steamtug and the Life-boat immediately proceeded out, and steered direct for the spot. On arriving near the sand, the Life-boat was...
Bingo
Fleetwood, Lancashire - At 2.35 a.m.
on 15th October, 1966, red flares were seen off Vyn light. The life-boat Ann Letitia Russell was launched at 2.50 in a moderate north north easterly wind. It was two hours after high...
The Sailing Boat Olive
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 9.30 on the night of the 14th of August, 1955, the police reported that a woman and her two sons, who were on holiday in Falmouth, had put off in the local sailing boat Olive the morning before for a trip in Falmouth...
The Boy Ernest
On the morning of the 19th April, large red flares were seen on the Middle Gross Sand, and the Middle Cross, St.
Nicholas, and Gorton light-vessels were firing rockets. The No. 1 Life-boat, Covent Garden was launched, a...
The Oar
PROBABLY the most ancient mode of propelling boats through the water by hand labour was by means of oars of nearly the same shape, and worked in the same manner, as those now in use. And to all appearance there is no likelihood of a change,...
Category: Articles
Caribia, of Delfzyl (1)
FEBRUARY 26TH - 27TH. - CAISTER, AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. About 2.45 in the morning the coastguard telephoned to Caister that the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston life-boat had just launched to a vessel on the east side of...
Scene from Above
The RNLI's lifeboats are part of the UK's overall Search and Rescue Facility and often work closely with their airborne counterparts.
Jim Ferguson, press officer of the Aberdeen branch of the RNLI, looks at HM...
Category: Articles
A Trip In a Swedish Rescue-Cruiser
(Member of the crew of the Beaumaris life-boat) IT was seven o'clock in the morning and raining slightly as I walked through the deserted streets of Gote- borg down to the docks where I was to board the Swedish rescue-cruiser Wilh: R....
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