LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lady Dalhousie
POBTHOUSTOCK, COXSWAIN,.—At midnight on the 13th April, during a strong breeze from the N.E., the weather at the same time being hazy, it was reported that a large steamer had struck on the Manacles Boots. The Mary Ann Storey Life-boat...
A Rowing Boat, a Dinghy and the Converted Trawler Alessie
HELICOPTER HELPED At 8.30 a.m. on 3151 August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two men in a rowing boat about three miles offshore from his look-out were waving frantically to attract attention.
There...
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Relief D class inflatable lifeboat. City of Derby, (D408) is shown crashing through waves at Dunbar where she was on relief duty between February and July 1995.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Crossing the Bar
A trawler entering Aberdeen Harbour on 29th January, 1937. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hawkinge, of Chepstow
The Life-boat Rochdale, in answer to signals of distress shown from the schooner Hawk, of Chep- stow, was, with considerable difficulty and persistent efforts, launched to her assist- ance on the morning of Sunday, the 2nd Feb., and having...
Jonas Oxley 81-Year-Old Ex-Coxswain Of
Jonas Oxley, 81-year-old ex-coxswain of Walton and Frinton lifeboat and the holder of two bronze medals and the Royal Humane Society resuscitation certificate, presents an angling trophy to Cecil Ellis for the heaviest catch at last year'... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Scaldis V
Weymouth, Dorset. At 4.48 on the morning of the 12th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was burning red flares a mile and a half south-south-east of Portland Bill. At 5.10 the life-boat Frank Spiller...
Books
• It is well for a country that she should number among her sons and daughters adventurous and courageous individualists—where, for instance, would the lifeboat service be without them? Such a man was Augustine Courtauld whose biography. The...
Category: Articles
Jenny Lind
WEXFORD, IRELAND.—At midnight on the 4th January, during a very strong gale from S. by E., a light was observed from a vessel which was apparently ashore in South Bay. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Ethel Eveleen were at once summoned, and...
Snowdrop, of Aberystwith
The Life-boat Royal Berkshire was launched from this sta- tion on the 4th Aug., •when, it was blowing fresh at W.S.W., and assisted to save the smack Snowdrop, of Aberystwyth, stranded on the North Bank, Aberdovey..