LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Yo-Ho-Ho!
Yo-ho-ho! Smugglers galore swarmed the countryside around Whimple and in hot pursuit was a determined band of excise men. The barrel-laden smugglers tiptoed their way over hill and down dale in a bid to reach the New Fountain Inn with their... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Nelson
DECEMBER 5TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 8.10 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard at Warden Point that a vessel two miles to the north-east was burning flares. A westerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. At 8.25 A.M. the...
A Valuable Source of Revenue
ONE cannot help being struck by the fact that some Station Branches find it comparatively easy to raise a substantial sum annually for the support of the Branch, while other places, with perhaps a much larger and wealthier population, are...
Category: Articles
Morning Star, of Carnarvon
On the 27th February, information was received here that a vessel was in distress in the bay. The wind was blowing hard from the N.E. at the time, and the sea was very rough.
The Sisters' Memorial life-boat was imme-...
Antje
NEW ROMNEY, KENT.- -A telephone message was received from the coastguard about midnight on the 23rd- 24th March stating that a vessel was making signals of distress off' Littlestone Point. The night was cold and wet, accompanied by a...
Joint Helicopter-Life-Boat Exercise
ON the 1st of September, 1955, the Humber life-boat City of Bradford III carried out an exercise in conjunction with a helicopter of the Royal Air Force station at North Cotes.
In the morning the pilot of the air- craft...
Category: Articles
Our Lights and Lighthouses
" How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world." Merchant of Vawx, IF the faint twinkling of a candle's light was calculated to awaken so beautiful an idea in the mind of our great...
Category: Articles
Wellington
On the evening of the 10th November a mounted messenger arrived, and reported that a vessel was riding at anchor in the bay outside the bar, and making signals for the Life-boat. The wind was blowing a gale from the N.N.W at the time. The...
Marnhull
At 6 A.M. on the 10th February signals of distress were observed on the North end of the Barnard Sand. The wind at the time was blowing a strong breeze from the S,W. and the sea was rough. The No. 2 Life-boat, St. Michael's, Paddington,...
Haab
POKTMADOC, CARNARVONSHIRE. — At 8 A.M. on the 24th January, a vessel having been observed on the S. side of the bar during a strong W.N.W. wind, the John, Ashbury Life-boat put off, and with some difficulty got alongside the vessel, which...