LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Motor Drifter White Heather
— On the evening of the 9th November a police- man reported that a man on Brechou Island had telephoned that a vessel thought to be his motor drifter White Heather, was showing signals of distress about three miles north of Sark. A...
New Life-boats Sent to the Coast
After the first sixteen months of the war the building of new life-boats almost ceased, and during the five years, eight months and five days of war, the Institution was able to send to the coast only seventeen new life-boats instead of the...
Category: Articles
New Ways of Raising Money
LEEDS LADIES' LIFE-BOAT GUILD has formed a luncheon club whose object is to encourage interest in the work of the Life-boat Service generally, to publicise the efforts of the Guild and to persuade members of the luncheon club to join the...
Category: Donations
The Government Barges L.C.M. 1144 and L.C.M. 1229
JANUARY 6TH. - CAISTER, NORFOLK.
At 1.5 in the afternoon, the Great Yarmouth coastguard reported two barges aground on Scroby Sands. A fresh westerly wind was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor life-boat Jose'...
The West Boat Shed: Built In 1920
The West Boat Shed: Built In 1920. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gavin and Chy Meet After the Rescue
Gavin and Chy meet after the rescue. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sailing Catamaran Santa Maria
Walmer, Kent. At 3.15 on the after- noon of the 25th of April, 1959, the coxswain was informed that a catamaran with three people on board had capsized. He saw the casualty about four hundred yards off the life-boat house, and at 3.30 the...
The S.S. Seaford
Margate, Kent. At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 3rd of January, 1959, the watchman of the local pilot cutter informed the honorary secretary that a radio message had been received from the s.s. Seaford of London, asking for a doctor, as the...
Merlin, of Llanelly
On the 13th December, the Princess of Wales life-boat on this Station went off to the assistance of a vessel reported as being in distress in the harbour of refuge at this place, she having dragged her anchors near the Breakwater. It was...
Gale of 25th and 26th Sept., 1851
SOME record, although brief, of our hea- viest storms may prove useful for reference at some future day, when the whole subject of shipwreck comes to be inquired into, as sooner or later it must. The disastrous gale of September last, which...
Category: Articles