LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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
Brockley Combe
Early on the morning of the 15th of December, 1953, the St. Helier, Jersey, life-boat Elizabeth Rippon took off eleven of the crew of the motor vessel Brockley Combe, of Bristol, which had struck the Minquiers Reef. For this service, a full...
Helicopter Scoop Net
The net is still secured alongside the cockpit (see page 52). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wrecked Near Peterhead
The trawler Dagon, of Grimsby, on the rocks on 8th September.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Vellum for Cloughey
IN the last number of The Life-boat a full account was given of the rescue by the Cloughey life-boat of the seven men of the South Rock Lightvessel which was adrift in a gale. The Insti- tution made money awards amounting to £126 155....
Category: Awards
Scene 3
The motor life-boat closing in to rescue the two men.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dulcie Doris
TWO MEN FROM LONGSHORE BOAT LANDED Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 2.28 on the afternoon of the 22nd January, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Lowestoft trawler Unda had picked up two men from the longshore boat Dulcie...