LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Naming Ceremonies: Amble Dunmore East and Walmer
TWIN NAMING CEREMONIES at Opposite ends of England took place at 3 o'clock on Saturday, September 6, 1975. At the same time as, in Northumberland, the new Amble lifeboat was being named Harold Salvesen by Mrs H. K. Salvesen, widow of the...
Category: Inaugurations
Richard, of Goole
On the 8th April, the sloop Richard, of Goole, was stranded, during a strong N.E. gale, on the Nest Sands, about half a mile from Blakeney Harbour. She at once showed signals of distress, which were promptly replied to by the Brightwell life...
Alpheus Marshall
BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE of WIGHT.
— On the 9th February, the barque Alpheus Marshall, of Digby, N.S., bound from New York to London, with a general cargo, went ashore on Atherfield Ledge during a fog. The wind was blowing...
Lively
REDCAR.—On the 10th January the Burton-on-Trent Life-boat rescued two men from the fishing-coble Lively, Redcar, which was in danger about quarter of a mile off Redcar Beach, and unable to land on account of the very heavy surf, the wind...
Paula Bertha
About 8 A.M.
on the 1st September the Coastguard gave information to the Coxswain of the No. 1 Life-boat, Samuel Plimsoll, that a vessel was aground on the Holm Sand.
He promptly mustered his crew, and...
Pearl, Ellen Harrison, Ford Fisher and Isabella
At about 5 P.M. on the llth November, during a northerly gale, signals of distress were seen from the schooner Pearl, of Chester, which was bound from Con- nah's Quay to Dublin with a cargo of fire-clay. The Life-boat Charles and Eliza...
Coxswain Henry G. Blogg, of Cromer (1)
Twice awarded the Institution's gold medal for great gallantry. Twice awarded the Institution's silver medal for gallantry. Awarded the medal of the Order of the British Empire by H.M. the King.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Seafire Aircraft
Clogher Head, Co. Louth; and Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 22nd of May, 1953, the Air Control Officer, Irish Air Corps, at Baldonnell rang up the Clogher Head life-boat station to say that a Seafire aircraft of the Irish...
Nordanhar
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands - On 21st February, 1970, the life-boat Guy and Clare Hunter was launched and rescued the crew of ten of the Swedish motor vessel Nordanhar. A full account of the service will appear in the next number of THE...
Chairman's Thanks
The new Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., and the retiring Chairman, Captain the Hon. V. M. Wynham- Quin, R.N., wish to take this opportunity of expressing their thanks for the very many kind...
Category: Committee