LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Biscaya
Biscaya sinks AT 0144 on December 13, 1974, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston honorary secretary was informed by Gorleston Coastguard that the 493 ton motor vessel Biscaya had been in collision with a French tug and tow in position 52°24'...
R.A.F.High-Speed Launch No. 124
JANUARY 3RD. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
At 9.10 P.M. the naval officer in charge telephoned that R.A.F. high-speed launch No. 124 was somewhere off Hartlepool.
Her compass had gone wrong and she could not...
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North Sunderland, Northumberland.— 18th January. Red rockets had been reported, but nothing could be found.
It was learned later that a chimney had been on fire, and that burning soot carried seawards had given the...
The Record of the War
In the five years, eight months and six days of war, from September 3rd., 1939, to May 8th., 1945, the life-boats of the Institution were launched to the help of ships and aeroplanes in distress 3760 times and rescued from them 6376 lives....
Category: Articles
A Ship
On the 27th November a boat with four men in her was upset in the entrance to Teignmouth harbour, when attempting to board a vessel coming in.
One man succeeded in getting on board the ship, but the boat herself, with two...
Death of a Head Launcher
EARLY on the evening of the 28th of August, 1957, a schoolmaster went to the harbour at Staithes in Yorkshire with a number of his pupils to bathe.
There was a light north-westerly wind blowing, and outside the harbour the...
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His Majesty King George V
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 128 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 40 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to February 29th, 1936 - 64,549
His Majesty King George...
Category: Obituaries
A Small Fishing Boat (1)
THURSO and WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE, AND LONGHOPE, ORKNEY.—A small fishing boat belonging to John O'Groats put to sea with two men aboard shortly before 6 A.M. on the 28th April, intending to return the same morning at about 10...
Mr E J Sage
Mr E J Sage, secretary to appeals sub-committee of Southend station branch from 1966. He was assistant branch secretary from 1952 to 1966. Mr Sage was awarded a silver badge in 1966 and a gold badge in 1987..
Category: Obituaries
Mr J Norman Wilkinson
Mr J Norman Wilkinson DSC, chairman of the Howth station branch. Mr Wilkinson was elected to the committee in 1950, honorary secretary from 1958 to 1987 and chairman in 1988. He was made an honoray life governor in 1987 and was awarded the...
Category: Obituaries