LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fantasy
Walmer, Kent - On 29th August, 1968, the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson, on temporary duty at the station, rescued the crew of three of the yacht Fantasy, for which special awards were granted. A full account of this service will appear...
None (1)
Swanage, Dorset - At 6.30 p.m. on 6th October, 1969, the coastguard told the life-boat coxswain that a man was trapped on the face of the cliff at Ballard. The crew assembled in case of need. A police rescue party joined the C.R.E. Company...
A Rubber Dinghy
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 5.20 on the afternoon of the 7th of May, 1958, the police told the honorary secretary that a rubber dinghy was drifting out to sea off Leasowe lighthouse with one man on board. At 5.35 the life-boat Edward and Mary...
Plymouth's Round House Before-
Plymouth's Round House presented unique problems when it was convened into the RNLI's base in Plymouth in 1993. The listed building dates from the early 19th century and the before-and-after photographs show how the building has been... - View image in PDF
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An Aeroplane (25)
MARCH 25TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 10.55 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that an aeroplane had come down in the sea one mile off Sandsend and that her crew had taken to their rubber dinghy. All the fishing boats...
Gardar and Miguel de Larrinaga
MAY 21ST. -WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.
The trawler Gardar, of Iceland, had been sunk in collision with the steamer Miguel de Larrinaga, but the latter picked up the majority of the Gardar’s crew, and the lifeboat found only...
Oregon, of Stonehaven
On the 7th April, the schooner Oregon, of Stonehaven, ran ashore on the South Gare Sand. The Middlesborough life-boat was towed again to the river's mouth, whence she proceeded to the sunken vessel and rescued her crew, 4 in...
King Oscar
On the night of the 10th January the Norwegian barque King Oscar ran ashore on the rocks off Newbiggin Point. The Newbiggin life- boat put off, and succeeded, with some dif- ficulty, in getting on board the crew, 14 in number, and one woman,...
Favourite and Enterprise
FRASERBURGH.—During a terrific gale from the N.W. and a heavy sea on the17th December, the ketch Favourite, of Sunderland, was observed at about 10 o'clock in the morning running towards Praserburgh from the Moray Firth with sails spent....
Flower of Ross
HOLY ISLAND.—On the night of the 6th November a tar barrel was seen burning near the shore opposite Ross Links. The wind was blowing •with, almost hurricane force from S. by E., rain and sleet were falling, and the night was intensely...