LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
January
JANUARY Launches 71. Lives rescued 221.
JANUARY 3RD. - ARRANMORE, CO. DONEGAL. A fishing boat was caught in a S.E. gale with a very rough sea. The motor life-boat K.T.J.S. was launched at 10.20 A.M., found the boat five...
Category: Services
An Aeroplane (3)
Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—At about 10.15 on the night of the 10th of June, 1948, the Ramsey coastguard telephoned the Port St. Mary, Port Erin, and Douglas life- boat stations that an aeroplane, with eight...
Wreck Chart of the British Isles for the Year 1901-1902
SUMMARY ." .u, ,f,ff&vr- ended the. je*& Jane, 190Z, tkeNwnber of"Vessels lost or dawagedon-the coasts.and~m the, seas ofttui Vnrted Kingdom incljuduijcases of-rraxtor damarfe- ffOS 41Z&an i die Ijtss of Life, as fat-...
Category: Charts
The Full-Rigged ShipForrest Hall
LYNMOUTH, NORTH DEVON.—Telegrams were received at about 7 P.M. on the 12th January asking for assistance to a vessel showing signals of distress off Grore Point.
Almost immediately after the messages had been received the...
Excelsior
Humber, Yorkshire. At 7.25 on the morning of 1st of January, 1959, the coastguard at Spurn Point informed the honorary secretary that three red flares had been seen about six or seven miles off Withernsea. At 7.47 the life-boat City of...
Alex Thomson And Dee Caffari (pictured)
Round-the-world sailors Alex Thomson and Dee Caffari (pictured) were just two of the 700 people who signed up as RNLI members at the London Boat Show in January.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Former Coxswain of Walton-On-The-Naze Lifeboat Mr Jonas Oxley Who Has Helped to Save Hundreds of Lives at Sea Is Putting Brush to Canvas
Former coxswain of Walton-on-the-Naze lifeboat, Mr Jonas Oxley, who has helped to save hundreds of lives at sea, is putting brush to canvas to record the work of the lifeboatmen. Early this year he completed a painting of Walton's first... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Three of the 17 Men to Win Medals for Gallantry on Service to Nafsiporos: Coxswain Richard Evans of Moelfre (Gold) Lt Commander Harold Harvey (Gold) and Coxsw
Three of the 17 men to win medals for gallantry on service to Nafsiporos: Coxswain Richard Evans of Moelfre gold), Lt. Commander Harold Harvey (gold), and Coxswain Thomas Alcock of Holy head silver).
photographs by courtesy... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hero, of Maldon
The Duncan life-boat at Sheringham saved 3 persons from the schooner Hero, of Maldon, which had stranded opposite Bee- ston Hills, near Sheringham.
People and Places
Overseas greetings RNLI Deputy Director, Ray Kipling, recently received a letter and some photographs from Fernando Andrade, secretary of the Uruguayan lifeboat service ADES. The picture above shows the Montevideo station lifeboat ADES 14,...
Category: Articles