LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Canoes
Swanage, Dorset. At 10.7 on the morning of the 17th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the assistant honor- ary secretary that four canoes on passage from Swanage to Poole appeared to be having difficulty in rounding the Old Harry Rock....
Nautilus, of South Shields
About 9 o'clock on the evening of Sunday, the 1st October last, during a strong easterly breeze, a brig struck on the Barber Sands, the sea im- mediately breaking over her. This being observed from the shore, the Caister life- boat was...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
CUMBERLAHD.—On the 17th April, 1866, information was received, during a strong gale from W.S.W., that a schooner was on shore on Dub Mill Scar, about eight miles E N.E. of this place, with a flag of distress flying. In a very short time the...
Category: Services
Mrs Bill Bennett of the Dolau Inn Known to Everyone As Maudie Comes from a Seafaring Family and Has Given So Much Help to the Lifeboat Service Over Many Years Th
Mrs Bill Bennett of the Dolau Inn, known to everyone as Maudie, comes from a seafaring family and has given so much help to the lifeboat service over many years that she has been made an honorary member of New Quay ladies' guild, Dyfed.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
SELSEY, SUSSEX.—On the 5th September the brig Governor Maclean, of London, was totally wrecked, during a gale of wind, on the Shold Point of the Ower's Sandbank, off Selsey. The life-boat on that station was immediately manned and...
Category: Services
A Small Boat (3)
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—On the, afternoon of the 2nd September a small boat, with a woman and her son on board, capsized one and a half miles S.S.W. of Ramore Head, in a strong S.S.E. breeze, with a moderate sea.
The accident...
Maldon Little Ship Club's
Maldon Little Ship Club's sponsored row, an annual event, raised£1,681 for the Institution when it was held in January, 1985. Competitors braved sub-zero temperatures, ice floes and snow in order to complete the five-mile course on... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
La Libertine
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands - At 3.26 a.m. on 29th July, 1969, the coastguard informed the life-boat coxswain that the French yacht La Libertine, with five men and two girls aboard, had dragged her anchor and was driving ashore between...
Four Days of Gales. Six Launches at Cromer and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston
DUEING the gale on the East Coast on the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th of November there were six launches at Cromer and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston. The crew of the Cromer station were out on service continuously for forty-five hours, while...
Category: Services
Dawn
AUGUST 27TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
At 6.30 in the evening the coxswain received a telephone call from the Colwyn Bay police that a boat was in distress one and a half miles off Colwyn pier.
A fresh...