LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Weymouth's Arun Lies Afloat
Weymouth's A/un lies afloat between two piles in front of the lifeboat house.
The access jetty is built over the remains of the old slipway and the station's Atlantic 75 is now in a purpose-built house downstream... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Tynemouth
TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND On the 8th December, 1940, the Tynemouth life-boat rescued the crew of twentytwo of the motor vessel Oslo Fjord, of Norway.
MR. EDWARD SELBY DAVIDSON, honorary secretary, was awarded the bronze...
Category: Medals
Eliza, of Middlesborough
On the! 6th December, the. brig Eliza, of Middlesboroxigh, was driven on the bar at the Tees' mouth. The Institution's life-boat at Seaton-Carew was soon launched, and proceeded through a high sea to the aid of her crew, 7 in number,...
Rambler and Mary Ann and Francis
On the 2nd Feb.
this Life-boat, the Covent Garden, was launched five times, with a succession of fresh crews, and ultimately succeeded in saving 13 lives from the schooners Ram- Wer, of Wexford, and Mary Ann, of Ply- mouth...
Watermillock, of Sunderland
Early on the morning of the 6th November, during a gale of wind from the N.N.W., accompanied by blinding showers, a vessel was observed in distress about a mile and a half from this place. The Par see life- boat promptly proceeded to the...
Trial, of Poole
On the night of the 3rd May, or rather at 1 A.M. on the 4th, a very gallant service was rendered by the crew of the Caistor life-boat, in rescuing, under circumstances of much danger, the crew of the schooner Trial, of Poole, 7 in number. On...
Little Aggie, of Berwick
On the 21st December, during a heavy gale from N.N.E., the schooner Little Aggie, of Ber- wick, with a cargo of slates, got on shore at Hauxley. The life-boat stationed there was immediately transported to the scene of the wreck, and with...
Britains Pride, of Falmouth
On the night of the 24th January, the brig Britain's Pride, of Fal- mouth, went ashore on the South Brake Sand, near the Goodwin Sands. The Bradford life-boat was quickly manned and taken out in tow of the harbour steam-tug Vulcan, and...
Kelton
DUNGENESS.—In response to signals of distress, the No. 1 Life-boat R. A. 0. B.
was launched at 2.40 A.M. on the 24th February, and found the four-masted barque Kelton, of Glasgow, stranded on the Newcome Sands. At the...
Re-Opening of Shoreham Station
THE Station at Shoreham, Sussex, which was established in 1865, was closed in 1924, owing to the silting up of the harbour. Up to that date its Life-boats had rescued forty lives.
Since 1924 there has been a great im-...
Category: Articles