LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Friendship, Black Beauty and English Rose
Cromer, Norfolk. At 2.53 on the afternoon of the 15th August, 1961, on the advice of the coxswain of the no. 1 life-boat, the no. 2 life-boat Harriot Dixon was launched on an ebbing tide to go to the help of the crab boats which were hauling...
Skegness - East Division
(left) The sands of Skegness at low water, stretching away left and right from the boathouse (almost central on the shoreline) which houses the station's carriage launched Mersey and inflatable D class. Directly behind it is the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bronze Medal for Fowey Coxswain
AT 4.10 in the morning of March 23rd, the coastguard rang up Fowey life-boat station to say that he could see signals of distress in Par Bay, and thirty minutes later the reserve motor lifeboat, The Brothers, put out. A whole gale was...
Category: Services
Good Intent
On the 5th October, about 10 P.M., signals of distress were seen from a fishing-smack being driven before a strong gale from the S. W. The assembly signal was made, and many willing hands quickly got the Life-boat Leslie to the water's...
An Income Tax Concession. How Subscribers Can Increase Their Contributions Without Cost to Themselves
WE wish to bring to the notice of sub- scribers to the Institution a method by which those who already give generous subscriptions can still further increase their support without any additional cost to...
Category: Advertisement
Penta, of Glasgow
JULY 18TH. - FENIT,. CO. KERRY. On the 13th of July the sailing yacht Penta, of Glasgow, had anchored about 500 yards eastsouth- east of the pier at Fenit. She had on board her owner, his wife and their maid.
On the 18th a...
F. Edwards
On the 14th November, at 4.30 A.M., the No. 1 Life-boat was launched, in reply to signals of distress, shown in the direction of the Middle Cross Sand. She sailed towards the sand, and met a boat containing 5 men, the crew of the schooner F....
Eliza
BURNHAM, SOMERSETSHIRE. — Intelligence having been received that the schooner Eliza, of Bridgwater, 69 tons, bound for Cardiff with a cargo of coal, and having a crew of three men, had sunk on the Gore Sands, the crew of the Lifeboat...
Affiance
The fishing-boat Affiance, of St. Ives, whilst bound for the fishing-grounds oil the 28th July, stranded on the Fame Islands, the weather being line and the sea smooth at the time. In response to her signals of distress, the Life-boat Thomas...
Adele
At 4.20 A.M. on the 22nd August, a telephone message was received from the Gunfleet Lighthouse stating that a vessel was ashore on the sand. Rockets were fired to assemble the crew, and within thirteen minutes the Life-boat James Stevens No....