LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Alexander
CARDIGAN.—:During a gale from the S.W. on the 9th February the schooner Alexander, of Beaumaris, bound from Port Dinorwic for Carmarthen with a cargo of slates, ran for Cardigan Bay, and brought up off the Black Rocks outside the...
People and Places
Drama after the draw! The former Beirut hostage, John McCarthy, and comedienne Sandi Toksvig drew a massive crowd to Weymouth's harbourside when they kept a promise to the RNLI to pick the winning tickets in the 66th National Lottery.<...
Category: Articles
Pioneer (1)
On the night of the 27th March the care- taker of the Board of Trade's Rocket Apparatus reported that a vessel in the Gold Top Roads was signalling for assistance. The crew of the Life-boat William Roberts were promptly assembled and the...
Racing Dinghies
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At eight o'clock on the evening of the 5th of May, 1954, the life-boat bowman was on the New Brighton landing-stage when a sailing dinghy taking part in a race capsized. He arranged for the life-boat to be...
Valentina An Ex-Norfolk and Suffolk Lifeboat: When Built In 1893 She Was Named Hearts of Oak and And Stationed at Sea Palling
Valentina, an ex-Norfolk and Suffolk lifeboat: when built in 1893 she was named Hearts of Oak and and stationed at Sea Palling.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Margaret
RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS.—On the 1st February, at 10.40 p.m., during a fresh breeze from S.E., signals were fired from the Gull Lightship. On the Lifeboat Bradford and steam-tug Vulcan proceeding to her, it was ascertained that a large flare...
Jesse Anna, of Whitby
On the 22nd of September last, at 3 A. M., the brig Jesse Anna, of Whitby, ran on the Goodwin Sands. On signals of distress being made by the light- vessels, the Ramsgate life-boat, in tow of the Harbour Commissioners' steamer Aid,...
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Our Brother
Boulmer, Northumberland. — On the morning of the 29th January a fresh N.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough and increasing sea. Visibility was bad, and it was raining heavily. All local cobles, with the exception of the Our Brother, came...
Rye Harbour's Atlantic 75, Commander and Mrs Rodney Welts,
Rye Harbour's Atlantic 75, Commander and Mrs Rodney Welts, is caught on camera here while excercising off Hastings with a Chinook helicopter from RAF Odiham.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs