LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Surf Board
Two calls A SURF BOARD sailor, sitting on his board trying without success to paddle back to shore against an offshore breeze was reported to the deputy launching authority of Ramsey lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1530 on Friday June 5...
S.S. Ila
JANUARY 21ST. - RAMSGATE, KENT At 4 P.M. news was received that a Nor-wegian steamer was ashore near the North Goodwin Light-vessel and that the naval authorities were sending a tug to investigate.
A second message from the...
After the War.
It must not be thought that because receipts exeeeded expenditure, by over £100,000 the Institution is getting more money than it needs. That £100,000 would in a normal year have all been spent in building new boats, and, if the...
Category: Articles
Equestrian, of Port Gordon
On the morning of the 16th March the same large Life-boat went off, in reply to signals of distress shown by the ketch Equestrian, of Port Gordon, and found that she had five feet of water in her. It was blowing heavily at the time from the...
Fishing Cobles (4)
During a light S.E. breeze with a heavy ground swell four fishing cobles belonging to Whitby were seen making for Runswick.
As the landing at Runswick was con- sidered to be very dangerous the Cox- swain of the Life-boat...
"Empty Vessels."
A COLLECTOR was taking the " Boat" round among a group of working men, but nothing was forthcoming in the shape of contributions except a crop of caustic remarks reflecting upon the work of the Institution in general and the...
Category: Donations
A Silver Plated Replica of Chapman Light Made By Morris Johnson Was Presented to Her Majesty the Queen In June By Convey Island Branch; for 106 Years the Light
A silver plated replica of Chapman Light made by Morris Johnson was presented to Her Majesty The Queen in June by Convey Island branch; for 106 years the light marked Chapman Sands, known as 'the last hazard' to ships returning to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
High, but not dry
5 November 2011: Whitby’s D class lifeboat OEM Stone III sped to the cliffs west of Whitby Harbour, where two people cut off by the tide had tried to climb to safety and got stuck. A lifeboat crew member went...
Category: Articles
The Middle Gas Float
At about 10 P.M. on the 13th November the coxswain saw that the Middle Gas Float had broken from its mooring and was drifting out of the Humber, be- coming a danger to navigation. The sea was smooth, with a light southerly wind, and the...
The S.S. Salvinia
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 1.44 early on the morning of the 8th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat was in distress off Tollesbury pier in the River Blackwater, and that people were shouting for...