LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Wreck of the "Schiller."
ON Friday, the 7th May last, occurred another of those fearful calamities which, like the foundering of the London and the Northfleet, ever and anon startle the whole British community, and serve to remind us of the uncertainty and...
Category: Articles
Big sick, little sick
The lifeboat volunteer, a teacher himself, wasn’t happy: ‘Nothing makes me more cross than giving up my time and having to suffer bad teaching. Now we’re to be guinea pigs for some new first aid training …’
In 2007, John...
Category: Articles
An American Superfortress Aeroplane (3)
Great' Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk; and Lowestoft, and Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—About 6.30 in the evening, on the 7th of June, 1950, an American Superfortress aeroplane crashed eight miles north-north-east of Smith's...
CATAMARAN CATASTROPHE
A collision in the English Channel becomes a challenging rescue for Dungeness RNLI
4.10am. Wednesday 8 August. Full-time Coxswain Stuart Adams is woken by his pager. There has been a collision in the English Channel and...
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FEBRUARY 5TH . - SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. A raft with a person on board had been reported off Marsden Pit Heap, but it was found to be a paravane. - Rewards, £7 15s. 6d..
At This Year's International Boat Show In London One of the R.N.L.I.'s New Mclachlan Rescue Craft
At this yeefr's International Boat Show in London one of the R.N.L.I.'s new McLachlan rescue craft with a G.R.P. hull was shown for the first time. Late last year it was announced that for the first time ever the R. N.L.I, had placed... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Danish Container Vessel Dragor Maersk
Injured crew DURING THE AFTERNOON of Friday OctOber 9, 1981, the 38,000 ton Danish container vessel Dragor Maersk, on passage from Hamburg to Port Said, told east coast radio stations that a crew member with a fractured hip needed to be...
New Ways of Raising Money
Almost 20 years after Ms aircraft had been shot down in the Channel, on I2th June, 1944, a former German prisoner- of-war wrote to the British naval at- tache in Bonn to trace the commanding officer of the British escort vessel which had...
Category: Donations
Relief Fleet - Mersey Class Her Majesty the Queen
Her Majesty The Queen and HRH Prince Philip aboard the Mersey class Her Majesty The Queen shortly after the naming ceremony at Ramsgate.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (16)
MAY 1ST. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY. An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the life-boat found nothing. In her own crew of nine were five merchant captains, who were on leave. - Rewards, £5 14s. 6d..