LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Julia
The schooner Julia, of and for Lowestoft, from Hartlepool, with a cargo of coal, and having a crew of four men, was seen to take the ground on the North part of the Barber Sand, at about 4.30 M. on the 25th of February, during N.E. by E....
Erna
The Yar- mouth Life-boat men were exposed for more than eleven hours to the fury of a strong S.S.E. gale and heavy sea, in connection with the wreck of the barque Erna, of Arendal, which became un- manageable when off Yarmouth, on the llth...
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Fall from cliff INFORMATION that a man had fallen over the cliff near the Western Carricks was given to St Ives station honorary secretary by Land's End Coastguard at 1351 on Wednesday August 26, 1981, and he was asked to launch the D...
Kings of the Sea
The relationship between the RNLI and the Sea King helicopters of the RAF's Aeronautical Rescue Coordination Centre has proved vital in many rescue missions.
James Ferguson visited RAF Kinloss to find out more about...
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The Admirality Mine Sweeper No. 48
At 9 A.M. on the 29th December, when the Life-boat Queensbury was moored in the Harbour after returning from the s.s. Gallier at 4 A.M. that morning, a naval officer requested to be placed on board the Admiralty Mine-sweeper No. 48. As a...
The Bar Light-vessel
LANDING AN INJURED MAN IN A ROUGH SEA New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 8.45 in the morning of the 15th of November, 1947, the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board asked for the life-boat to land the mate of the Bar Light-vessel, who had been severely...
H.M. Tank Landing Craft 144
DECEMBER 20TH. - STORNOWAY, ISLAND OF LEWIS. H.M. Tank Landing Craft 144 was in danger, as her engine had broken down, but she was taken in tow by one of H.M. trawlers. - Rewards, £6 13s..
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
SEATON CAREW, DURHAM.—The schooner | Cynthia, of Montrose, was being towed out of the Tees on the 5th April, 1871, when ' the tow-rope parting, she grounded on the North Gare Sandbank. A strong wind from the E.N.E. was blowing at the...
Category: Services
Inaugural Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats
Cromer and Penlee.
THE new Cromer Motor Life-boat is the third of the Norfolk and Suffolk type to be constructed, the other two being the boats stationed at Walton-on-Naze and Lowestoft. The second of these two boats, the...
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The Western Lightship
JANUARY 7TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
At 9.30 in the evening of the 6th of January the honorary secretary of the life-boat station was asked by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board for the services of the life-boat to...