LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An American Superfortress Aeroplane (1)
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...
An Anson Aeroplane (1)
JULY 17TH. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At eight o’clock in the evening the Rhyl life-boat station was told that an Anson aeroplane had come down in the sea seven miles to the north-west, and that Botha aeroplanes and...
Captain Fleten from Fred Olden Lines
Captain Fleten from Fred Qtden Unes presents a cheque for £29,246 to Nigel French and Coxswain Tony Hawkins of Dover. - View image in PDF
Tne money WBS raised from fundraising dunng 1997 on board their two cruise liners.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Rules Made By the Board of Trade Under the Life-Saving Appliances Act, 1888
THESE rules, which are to come into effect on the 1st of November, were signed I a few days ago by Sir MICHAEL HICKSBEACH, and have just been presented to j Parliament. They are certainly of a most elaborate character—it is difficult to see...
Category: Articles
STAMPS WANTED
Mr. Barrie Smale, of 28 Stratford Road, Blacon, Chester, reports continued progress with his R.N.L.I. stamp appeal, a cheque for £13 being received from him in July. Mr. Smale is making up approval books of stamps to send to stamp clubs...
Category: Donations
Kayakers pulled from the sea
TYNEMOUTH AND CULLERCOATS | 18 JANUARY
A trio of kayakers made a radio distress call after their craft capsized just outside Tynemouth Pier, leaving them at the mercy of stormy waters. Cullercoats...
Category: Articles
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Fowey, Cornwall.—About 4.15 in the afternoon of the 7th of August, 1948, news was received that a woman had fallen over the cliffs near Gribben Head, and the motor life-boat C.D.E.C., with a small boat in tow, was launched at 4.35. A strong...
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Barrow, Lancashire, and Maryport, Cumberland.—During the morning of the 16th January, 1938, a man reported to the Whitehaven police that he had seen rockets off the coast between Seascale and Sellafield, about twentyeight miles by sea from...
Winnefred
at 10.30.
On the llth November, while a whole gale was blowing from the S.S.W., the barque Winnefred, of and from Laurvig for London, with wood, was seen coming north. She had lost her main and mizen masts, and had a flag...
Ice, wind and snow
When two holidaymakers in a hired cruiser started sinking in sub-zero waters, there was no time to lose …
Breydon Water, an estuary in Norfolk where the Rivers Yare, Bure and Waveney converge,...
Category: Articles