LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.M. Submarine Truculent
Margate, Kent, and Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—On the 12th of January, 1950, the life-boats from these two stations were out on service, assisting with the transhipment of survivors from H.M.
Submarine Truculent.—Rewards: Mar-...
An Air-Sea Rescue Launch
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At seven o'clock on the morning of the 24th of March, 1958, a message was received from 1115 Marine Craft Unit, Royal Air Force, that one of the unit's air-sea rescue launches had broken adrift from her moorings...
Two Men Washed Out of Life-Boat
Two members of the Teesmouth crew had a remarkable escape when they were washed out of the life-boat after she had gone to the help of an Indian steamer on I4th March, 1964.
At 9.40 that morning the honorary secretary of...
Category: Services
Sisters, of Whitby
On the night of the 26th February, the brig Sisters, of Whitby, laden with coals, was driven on shore on the South Barber Sand, off Caistor. Her signals of distress being seen from the shore, the Caistor boatmen proceeded to launch the...
Manx Lass, of Peel
SEPTEMBER 18TH. -PORT ERIN, AND PEEL, ISLE OF MAN. At 11.21 in the morning the Castletown coastguard reported to the Port Erin life-boat station that the Peel life-boat, had launched at eleven o’clock to search for the herring drifter Manx...
Blonde Sennen Cove Crew Members
Blonde Sennen Cove crew members with stylists Helen Prowse. Louise Barton and Claire Patrick, pictur* Tim siavens. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Emanuel Boucher, of Whitby
On the morning of the 6th January, during a terri- fic gale of wind from the S.E., the Ponte- fract and Goole life-boat went off through a very heavy sea, in reply to signals of dis- tress, and rescued the crew of 6 men from the brig Emanuel...
A Dinghy
100,000th life saved ON WEDNESDAY, May 28, 1975, HM Coastguard informed the New Brighton, Merseyside, honorary secretary that a boy was adrift in a rubber dinghy 200 yards off shore near Formby Point. The ILB was launched at 1435 in a...
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Bembridge, Isle of Wight - At 2.26 a.m. on i8th August, 1966, two girls, who had set out to walk from Sandown to Bembridge along the shore, were reported missing. There was a calm sea. It was just after high water. The life-boat Jesse Lumb...
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FEBRUARY 19TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.
An object, looking like a raft flying a flag, had been reported, but nothing could be found.- Rewards, £34 17s. 6d..