LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Alpha (1)
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—On the 3rd of April, 1949, the life-boat Ann Letitia Russell rescued the crew of eight of the ketch Alpha, of Stranraer, and rescued six of them a second time after they had returned to the ketch. Rewards, the bronze...
Interwave
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk and Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 8.4 a.m. on 13th March, 1970, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Dutch coaster Interwave was aground on the Cross Sands bank. The Great Yarmouth and...
A Dinghy (7)
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 7.52 on the evening of the 17th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a 13-feet sailing dinghy was overdue at Isle Ornsay, Skye. It was high water when the life-boat E. M....
Two Boats, Two Rowing Boats, a Motor Boat, a 14-foot Boat
TWO YOUTHS SAVED—FOUR BOATS ESCORTED Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 11.20 on the morning of Sunday, the 29th September, 1963, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a small boat was in trouble off the river Tyne. This was confirmed by...
Staniel (1)
Aldeburgh, and Lowestoft, Suffolk.
At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 27th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the Lowestoft honorary secretary that the motor vessel Staniel of Cardiff, which was making for Lowestoft...
On October 27, 1959, Fraserburgh lifeboat,
On October 27, 1959, Fraserburgh lifeboat, The Duchess of Kent, heads out into a gale and mountainous seas. In escorting one fishing vessel back to harbour and in plucking the crew of another to safety after their yawl had been rolled onto... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Choral Event
The Macclesfield branch recently held its fourth concert at the local Heritage Centre.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs Rhoda Brash,
Mrs Rhoda Brash, winner of the 4th prize in the summer 2005 Lifeboat Lottery. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Clacton Second Coxswain Drowned.
Frank Castle, second coxswain of the Clacton-on-Sea life-boat for 19 years, lost his life in a gale in April. The life-boat had gone out to a barge, and the coxswain put Castle, the bowman and the assistant motor mechanic on board to help...
Category: Articles
Barbara of Hopeman
On the llth March the sloop Barbara, of Hopeman, sprang a leak, and split her fore-staysail, in a heavy gale from the north. She accord- ingly ran for the sands to the eastward of Lossiemouth, when the life-boat of the In- stitution...