LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gdynia
Boulmer, Northumberland.—At 2.35 on the morning of the 24th of August, 1956, the coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore one mile east-south- east of Boulmer Haven. The life-boat Clarissa Langdon was launched at 2.55. There was a slight...
Minnetonka
APRIL 20TH. - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN. At ten o’clock at night the coastguard telephoned that the customs officer at Cockenzie had reported a ship sending up flares in Aberlady Bay. The motor life-boat George and Sarah Strachan was launched at...
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Arrow Belle
During the forenoon of the 19th January, the schooner Arrow Belle, of Aberystwith, bound from Glen- dower to Greenock, but then at anchor in the Bay of Dublin, parted from her cables and drove ashore near North Bull. A strong gale from the S...
Twenty-Five Years As Chairman
IN May of this year Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., completed twenty-five years as chairman of the Committee of Management of the Institution.
There have been, including him, eight chairmen in the 124 years since the Institution...
Category: Articles
A Spanish Medal for Coverack
THE silver prize medal which the Spanish Life-boat Society awarded to Coxswain W. A. Rowe, of Coverack, for the rescue of the crew of seventeen of the steamer Mina Cantiquin, on the 4th of November, 1951, and the diplomas awarded to him and...
Category: Medals
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
HAUXLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND. — Two men returning from work early on the morning of the 15th March, 1890, saw the lights of a steamer ashore on the Bondicarr Beef. A strong S. wind was blowing, there was a heavy swell, and the weather I was hazy....
Category: Services
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Category: Advertisement
The Newhaven Lifeboat Was Also Involved In the Rescue Caught In the Dramatic Photograph (Left)
The Newhaven lifeboat was also involved in the rescue caught in the dramatic photograph (left) from the harbour wall on 24 July, 1988.
A swimmer, visible under the lifeboat's starboard bow, is being hauled from the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rotha
Cromer, Norfolk - At 1.15 a.m. on 19th December, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was a sick man on board the trawler Rotha which was 10 miles north east of the Haisboro light vessel. As poor visibility due to...