LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Inflatable Dinghy
Divers in trouble FIVE PEOPLE in an inflatable dinghy in difficulty on the lee side of Dulas Island were reported to the honorary secretary of Moelfre lifeboat station by Holyhead Coastguard at 1408 on Monday August 21, 1978, and at 1417 the...
Captain Henry Beresford Harvey
Captain Henry Beresford Harvey, who served as honorary secretary of Sennen Cove station branch from 1963 to 1975; he was awarded a Public Relations award in 1969, a barometer in 1974 and the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum in...
Category: Obituaries
Filatore, of Genoa
Again, on the 16th Nov., this Life-boat saved the crew of 10 men from the barque Fttatore, of Genoa, which was lost on the Middle Cross Sand, during a gale at N.N.E.
This service was one of extreme peril, and the Life-boat...
Fishing Boats
On the 9th May* the life-boat of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, which is stationed at Thorpe- ness, was the means of saving the Lives of 3 fishermen, who had been caught in a gale near Sizewell Bank, and were in great danger. Being seen...
Our Betty
Dungeness, Kent.—At 10.20 on the morning of the 26th of August, 1950, the Sandgate coastguard reported that a fishing boat had broken down one mile west of Sandgate. She was flying a shirt on an oar as a distress signal.
At...
Past and Present
125 years ago From The Life-Boat of 1870 At a time when the RNU'sinamie from legacies is under scrutiny it is interesting to look back to the Institution's earliest days ami the wn / in which lifeboat* were...
Category: Articles
(Right) Between July and October Last Year Beccles and District Branch Pirate Ship 'Raided' Holidaymakers on the Norfolk Broads With Collecting Boxes and Raised (550
(Right) Between July and October last year Beccles and District branch pirate ship 'raided' holidaymakers on the Norfolk Broads with collecting boxes and raised (.550.11; this year she will be outward bound in March. Her crew are:... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Boat (1)
Margate, Kent - At 9.2 p.m. on ist May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that flashes had been reported by the police to be coming from a small boat near the south east Margate buoy and requested that the life-boat stand...
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St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—27th September, 1938. Very lights had been reported near the Hanois Lighthouse, but nothing could be found.—Rewards, £9 Is..
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JULY 21ST. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
Distress signals had been reported between Stroma and Pentland Skerries, but the life-boat could find nothing.-Rewards, £9 11s..