LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lion
LOOE, CORNWALL.—On the 29th August the Life-boat Oxfordshire was launched, and rescued one of the crew of the ketch Lion, of Exeter, which had sprung a leak and had capsized about five miles S.E. of Looe, during a strong S.S.W. wind. The...
Royal
On the 3rd March in consequence of the westerly wind increasing to a gale—the sea already being high—the small fishing coble Royal, which was at 12.30 P.M.
about six miles off Newbiggin with no other vessel near her, was...
S.S. Halizones
St. Mary's, Scilly Isles.—19th Octo- ber, 1939. A message was received that a British steamer, s.s. Halizones, had been sunk by enemy action forty miles S.W. of the Bishop Lighthouse, but ten minutes after the life-boat was launched,...
Arne
Swanage, Dorset-At 4.55 p.m. on 31st May, 1968, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy was in difficulties three miles south of Dancing Ledge. At 5.3 the life-boat R.L.P. was launched and at 5.27 she reached the...
Cliff Rescue:
Cliff rescue: Just as Torbay lifeboat crew, together with the honorary secretary, were embarking on the 54ft Arun lifeboat Edward Bridges (Civil Service No. 37), at 1445 on Sunday May 24, for exercise and to take part in the annual Blessing... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs Lucia Hobson Unveils the Plaque
Mrs Lucia Hobson unveils the plaque to commemorate the official opening of the RNLI's headquarters extension.
Pictured (from left to right) are the Sheriff of Poole Councillor Mrs Doreen Bugo, the Mayor of Poole and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (30)
J UNE 3 RD. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. It had been reported that two of the crew of three of an aeroplane had left their machine by parachute, three miles south of the watch-house, but a piece of parachute was all that could be found. News...
An Aeroplane (79)
AUGUST 11TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. The R.A.F.
reported a Blenheim aircraft down in the sea three miles off the coast between Yarmouth and Lowestoft, but the life-boats found...
Morning medevac
Lowestoft’s 14m Tyne class lifeboat Spirit of Lowestoft was called out to the 159m cargo vessel American Tern on 15 November 2010 (pictured). Just before 7am, one of the cargo ship’s crew had crushed his thumb in a hatch and needed medical...
Category: Articles
Armana, of Sunderland
On the 20th February, 1865, the Blake- ney life-boat again went out, and rescued the crew of 13 men from the barque Arnfino,, of Sunderland, which was totally wrecked, during thick weather, about 3 miles east of Blakeney Harbour. The...