LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
List of the Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution During the Year 1878
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Category: Services
A Fishing Boat (4)
MARCH 30TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
A fishing boat. had been reported missing, but the life-boat could not find her. Later, wreckage was found. The boat must have been lost with both the men on board.- Rewards, £36 13s. 2d...
Alcinous
DUNGENESS, KENT.—On the 6th April the Coastguard watchman informed the coxswain of the Life-boat B.A.O.E. that a large steamer had stranded on the Newcome Sand. He at once summoned the crew and at 6.15 p.m. the boat was launched. A strong...
Barrus
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Category: Advertisement
A Steam Drifter
AUGUST 26TH. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.
A steam drifter had been reported ashore and showing signals of distress, but it was found that a mistake had been made in the signal and that she was not in any difficulty. - Rewards,...
Duke Senior
Anglers landed THE FISHING VESSEL Duke Senior appeared to be in difficulties near the entrance to Whitstable harbour just after midday on Sunday January 19, 1986. There were a number of people on board, thought to be anglers, and the boat...
Cover Picture
Sunset watch for the Margate lifeboatman, a memorial to nine men who lost their lives in the early morning of December 2, 1897, when Margate town surf boat Friend of All Nations capsized on her way to help the ship Persian Empire of West... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat People
Among the awards announced in the New Year Honours list were: Knights Bachelor Timothy Hugh Bevan, chairman, Barclays Bank PLC. Sir Timothy has been honorary treasurer of Balcombe and Staplefield branch since 1964 and was awarded the...
Category: Articles
Southampton Boat Show September 13 to 18 Got Away to a Good Start on the First Day With the Presentation By Shaw Taylor to Sir Alec Rose of Three Cheques: £500 From
Southampton Boat Show, September 13 to 18, got away to a good start on the first day with the presentation by Shaw Taylor to Sir Alec Rose of three cheques: £500 from Cobramold Ltd, to mark the building of the 2,000th Leisure class... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire. — In the early hours of the 2nd of November, 1956, the motor fishing vessel Lend Us, of Whitby, put out to go to the fishing grounds. By midday the weather had deteriorated, and as the fishing boat was due to return to...