LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Vesper
Whitehills, Banffshire.—On the afternoon of the 14th April it was learned that the motor fishing boat Vesper, of Fraserburgh, was running for shelter and heading towards Macduff. She had previously been warned away from Fraserburgh and...
Little Culverden
Hastings, Sussex.—The motor life-boat Cyril and Lilian Bishop was launched at 8.17 A.M. on the 18th November t6 search for the local open fishing boat Little Culverden, which was missing. A strong N. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The...
Atlantis
ENGINE FAILURE Selsey, Sussex. At 1.15 p.m. on nth January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the German motor vessel Atlantis then two miles south-west of Littlehampton had broken down with engine trouble and...
Bangor
On the morn- ing of the 26th February the honorary secretary received a telephone message from the coastguard on watch at Cloughey that a small coasting steamer was aground on the rocks about four hundred yards east of Ballyquinton Point....
In Loving Memory
In loving memory Six of the parents whose sons were lost off Land's End during Easter, 1985, have presented a cheque for £52,000 to Rear Admiral W. J. Graham, director, at RNLI Headquarters.
The money, which was...
Category: Articles
Lizzie to the Rescue
Lizzie the Lifeboat, the heroine of Dora Thatcher's book, is continuing her fund raising activities - but this time in model form! Modeller and lifeboat enthusiast John Saunders was growing tired of having to refuse small boys requests... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Cross-Channel Steamer Dieppe, S.S. Richmere
THEBE were heavy at the end of November, and on the 26th Jes round the coast whole gale was blowing at the time, and the Motor Life-boat and two tugs put out and 27th of that month ten Life-boats to her help. Both tugs got into diffiwere...
Help to the Vessels of Foreign Countries.
The year was notable also for the large number of lives rescued from foreign vessels. In the midst of war the life-boat service has never forgotten its undertaking to rescue all in peril at sea, whatever their nationality. There were...
Category: Articles
One of the Last Launches of John and Henrietta In 1916 Assisted By the Army
One of the last launches of John and Henrietta, in 1916, assisted by the army.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Andre Deutsch Ltd
SHIPWRECK Vera Cumberlege Illustrated by Maurice Yardley As a child the author watched the Bembridge lifeboat rowed to a wreck for the last time before a powered boat arrived. The dramatic events of that day remained in her memory and...
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