LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
List of Launches
Station-by-station lifeboat launches for November and December WS and January and February 7999 Aberdeen Arun: Nov 12 (twice), 18, Jan 12, 13, 21 and 24 D Class: Jan 13 and 24 Achill Island Arun: Feb 27 Aith Severn: Jan 10, 31 and Feb 9...
Category: Services
Services of Life-Boats
BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—On the 22d March the schooner Heinrkh Gerdes, of Rostock, on running for the harbour of Berwick, struck on the bar, and was driven ashore south of the entrance to the Tweed. It was blowing a heavy gale from east-north-east,...
Category: Services
the 47' Cabin Cruiser Shark
Trapped below THE RAMSGATE/CALAIS HOVERCRAFT advised HM Coastguard Dover Straits at 0925 on Thursday August 4, 1977, that distress flares had been seen on the eastern edge of the Goodwin Sands, near the East Goodwin Lightvesselwhere a cabin...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
WALMER.—On the 6th Feb., 1897, in response to guns and rockets, the reserve Life-boat temporarily placed on this station was launched at about 3.45 A.M., proceeded to the South Sand Head light- vessel, and ascertained that she had been run...
Category: Services
H.M.S. Fossbeck
SEPTEMBER 2ND. - WALMER, KENT. A leading seaman on H.M.S. Fossbeck had his skull fractured when a bucket of ashes fell on him, and at six in the morning the motor life-boat Langham, on temporary duty at the station, was launched, with a...
Splendid, of Dublin
On the 12th Sept., during a strong gale of wind, the schooner Splendid, of Dublin, was seen making for Howth harbour in a disabled condition, with her mainsail blown to pieces. She afterwards anchored in a dangerous position near the...
Mercury
The pilot-cutter Providence arrived at Harwich on the 3rd March flying signals denoting that the Life-boat was required.
The steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland, with the reserve Life-boat in tow, promptly went out, and...
Doris
.— On the 19th July at about 1.30 P.M. a small yacht was seen ashore on the N.E. Buxey Sand, but as she was in no danger no assistance was sent. Later in the afternoon, however, the wind got more into the east and increased to a strong...
Harbour Lights Uk
nest This 141 ft. tall lighthouse, built in 1906, guards Weymouth Bay md the treacherous currents on the South Coast.
IWll.M.J Bill Dorset Eddy stone Lighthouse Devon 8x4 tinted limited edition MMibUc 2001 onfy £77.50...
Category: Advertisement
Correspondence
Four Winds, Wade Lane, Wade Court Road, Havant, Hampshire.
16th September, 1956.
DEAR SIR, I am writing to express my extreme gratitude to the coxswain and crew of the Selsey life-boat for their rescue of...
Category: Correspondence