LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Coningbeg Lightvessel
Kilmore, Co. Wexford. At 10 a.m.
on 26th January, 1965, the Irish Lights Office asked the honorary secretary for the use of the life-boat to convey a sick man from the Coningbeg Lightvessel to the mainland. The life-boat...
Whitby's New Tyne Class Lifeboat City of Sheffield
Whitby's new Tyne class lifeboat City of Sheffield at her naming ceremony on 28 July 1989. Alongside her is the station's D class inflatable and in the background one of the town's former lifeboats Mary Ann Hepworth. Inset: HRH... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ramleigh
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At about three in the morning of the 30th May, 1938, the local fishing coble Ramleigh put off to haul crab pots about six miles south of Whitby. One of her crew of three was coxswain of the motor life-boat Mary Ann...
Belle, of Sunderland
During a gale of wind from S.W., on the 2nd January, 1869, the brig Belle, of Sunderland, was total)/ wrecked on Sizewell Bank. The life-boat Ipswich,- which is stationed at Thorpeness, was launched with all practical speed, and happily...
Lucy, of Antwep
On the 13th April a barque, which proved to be the Lucy, of Antwerp, was seen to be in distress on the Burnham Flats, five miles and a half from the shore. The Braacaster Lifeboat, the •Joseph and Mary, was launched as soon as horses could...
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MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK THE sighting of a man in distress on Culver Cliff near Minehead, Somerset, on 2nd July, 1972, led to a rescue by the local ILB. He was first seen standing on a small overhanging rock, about 50 feet up, waving a towel....
A Speed Boat
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Yacht Ilona
The Life-boat William Erie was called in a moderate N.E. wind but thick fog, soon after midnight on the 26—27th January, by a telephone message, which reported a steamer was ashore at St. Alban's Head.
The vessel proved...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution—continued
NORTH SUNDERLAND.—The schooner St. Fergus, of Wick, bound from the Tyne for Inverness, with cement, in trying to pass through the Fairway, between the land and the Fame Islands, during a strong W.N.W. gale on the 17th March, 1885, broke her...
Category: Services
A Fishing Boat
On the 27th March, while the Oxfordshire life-boat was out for her usual quarterly exercise, she fell in with a small boat, containing 2 fishermen, belong- ing to Looe. They were in great distress, being unable to pull against the strong...