LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Marigold
APRIL 22ND. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. Early in the afternoon a sailing yacht was seen making towards Whitecliffe Bay with her sails damaged. She was kept under observation by the coastguard and lifeboatmen.
A strong N.W....
The S.S. Acaster
NEWBIGGIN, NOBIHTTMBKBLAND.—During a gale of wind from the S.8.E., and a very heavy rough sea on the 22nd of December, the s.s. Acaster, of Hartlepool, bound from Honfleur for Shields, in ballast, was observed ashore on Bridge Head, a mile...
The Ferry Boat Tim
Cromarty.—At 3 P.M. on the 3rd May, 1939, a message was received from the Seaforth Highlanders Depot at Fort George that the ferry boat Tim, running from Fort George to Chanory, with the depot band of twelve men on board, had broken down...
Dainty (1)
ESCORT FOR YACHT WITH TORN MAINSAIL Plymouth, Devon. At 8.30 on the morning of the 17th August, 1962, the Rame Head coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was a yacht whose sails had carried away two miles east-south-east of...
The Naming of Rnlb Ann Ritchie Oban
ON SATURDAY May 7 a damp, overcast morning overshadowed the preparations at Oban for the naming ceremony of the first 33ft Brede lifeboat to go on station. As the time of the ceremony drew nearer, however, the weather improved and a warm,...
Category: Inaugurations
Life-Boats Made An Extensive Search for Survivors from the Motor Cruiser Darlwin Which Disappeared With Little Trace Off the South West Coast In July, 1966
Life-boats made an extensive search for survivors from the motor cruiser Dor/win which disappeared with little trace off the south west coast in July, 1966. Here the Falmouth life-boat is shown returning with flag at half-mast, with the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of Shore-Boats, In Saving Life from Shipwreck In 1862, for Which Rewards Have Been Granted By The National Life-Boat Institution
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Category: Services
October (1)
NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. Four men were out fishing in the motor fishing boat Little Old Lady on the 14th of July, 1943, and at about 8.30 in the morning saw a parachute from a Thunderbolt aeroplane floating down about two miles south of Peacehaven....
Category: Services
(Above Left) Mrs Antonia Wallace Heaton Honorary Secretary of Kensington Branch With Some of Her Enthusiastic Royal Navy Helpers at the Ideal Home Exhibition Ol
(Above, left) Mrs Antonia Wallace Heaton, honorary secretary of Kensington branch, with some of her enthusiastic Royal Navy helpers at the Ideal Home Exhibition, Olympia, last spring. During the exhibition Navy crews collected £207.98... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Thrift
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 12.23 early on the morning of the 18th of Decem- ber, 1957, the coastguard telephonedthe honorary secretary to say a vessel was ashore at Ness Point in Robin Hood's Bay. The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched...