LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
General Summary to the 16th Dec, 1865
Number of Lives rescued by Life-boats, in addition to 20 vessels saved by them . 444.
Amount of Rewards to Life-boat Crews . . . . . £1,570 18 11
Number...
Category: Annual Reports
January (1)
JANUARY MEETING ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At about 5 in the afternoon of the 21st June, 1940, the coastguard reported a ship’s boat drifting some five miles north of Ilfracombe. A light N.N.W. wind was blowing, with a slight sea.
Category: Services
H.M. Balloon Drifter Marcia
SEPTEMBER 7TH. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At about 11.30 at night the coastguard asked the life-boat to go to the help of a balloon drifter which was ashore in Blyth Bay about half a mile S.S.W. of Blyth piers. The night was...
Glebe
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 4.50 ill the afternoon of the 7th of April, 1948, a fisherman of Lulworth Cove came ashore and reported that a yacht and its dinghy appeared to be in difficulties off Whitenose. Ten minutes later the motor life-boat...
Silver Quest (2)
Five lifeboats in long search for lost fishermen Newcastle, Co. Down's, Oakley class lifeboat Jane Hay and Portaferry's Atlantic 21 Blue Peter V took part in long searches for the two crewmen from a fishing boat Silver Quest which...
Ceremonies
The Mumbles, August 29, 1986: A bi-ling ceremony was the order of the day when The Mumbles' new 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat was dedicated with prayers in Welsh and English. After Dr Hudson, chairman of the station committee, had...
Category: Inaugurations
People and Places
Lottery Saturday afternoon shoppers jostled with each other for the best view of the 39th lottery draw. The event took place at 3pm on Saturday, October 31 inside the Poole branch of Tesco's supermarket, by kind permission of branch...
Category: Articles
Improved Life-Boat Roller Skids
In Number 43 of this Journal for January, 1862, we gave a description and illustrations of these useful articles, which much facilitate the launching and hauling up of heavy boats and their transport for short distances on the...
Category: Articles
Instructions for the Management of Open Boats In Heavy Surfs and Broken Water
IN the 18th Number of this Journal we inserted a Paper on the above subject, compiled in great part from information collected from the boatmen on the coasts of the United Kingdom.
The Committee of the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Harlington
The s.s. Har- lington, of London, belonging to the P. and O. Company, stranded on the Gunfleet Sands, whilst bound from Middlesbrough to London laden with iron, on the 2nd December. At 2.30 P.M.
the...