LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (140)
SEPTEMBER 13TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boat was later recalled, as news was received that the aeroplane had landed at her aerodrome.- Rewards, £6...
Drill
LIFE-BOAT crews are generally such experienced boatmen that the necessity for drill is not apparent to them, and the quarterly exercise at some stations is apt to degenerate into a somewhat perfunctory proceeding which does not strike...
Category: Articles
Gudveig and the Latvian Steamer Everene
JANUARY 25TH. - HOLY ISLAND, AND NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
The Norwegian steamer Gudveig, of Oslo, and the Latvian steamer Everene, of Riga, had been sunk by mine or torpedo, but other steamers had picked up a...
Captain Fleten from Fred Olden Lines
Captain Fleten from Fred Qtden Unes presents a cheque for £29,246 to Nigel French and Coxswain Tony Hawkins of Dover. - View image in PDF
Tne money WBS raised from fundraising dunng 1997 on board their two cruise liners.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Saved after sandbank shift
RNLI lifeguards patrolling Tenby South beach went to the aid of a group of 40 people when the sandbank they were walking on shifted on 25 July.
The 36 children and 4 adults were suddenly out of their depth. Two lifeguards...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—Continued
GREAT YARMOUTH AND CAISTER. — On the 24th September, 1871, while it •was blowing strongly from the S.E., and a heavy sea was running, a vessel at anchor on a lee shore, near Caister, ex- hibited signals of distress. The No. 1 Life-boat on...
Category: Services
A mother's tale
A mother grieving for her drowned son is helping the RNLI to raise awareness of water safety
Plamen Petkov had appeared to be like any other visitor to the beach, until he drowned saving the...
Category: Articles
March (1)
CARRADALE, ARGYLLSHIRE. At eleven in the morning of the 9th of December, 1943, the two motor fishing boats Betty and Irene, which work together, were at anchor in Carradale Bay, when their crews saw an aeroplane come down on the sea. A...
Category: Services
Boy Arthur and Ocean Vanguard
Amble, Northumberland.—The motor life-boat Frederick and Emma was launched at half past eleven in the morning of the 2nd of February, 1948, as two fishing cobles were overdue and a moderate west-south-west gale was blowing...
Cachalot
Clacton-on'Sea, and Southend-on-Sea, Essex, and Margate, Kent.—Early on the morning of the 25th October the yacht Cachalot, of Burnham-on-Crouch, with one man on board, got intodifficulties near the Mid-Barrow...