LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Henrietta
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT TORBAY DEC. 16TH. - TORBAY, AND SALCOMBE, DEVON. In the early afternoon the schooner Henrietta, of Truro, with a crew of seven men, was carried by the strong spring tides and a gale from the east-north-east to the...
MISSION: accomplished
Rad Hart-George and Nick Pleydell-Bouverie's journey began with an epic vision: to cycle the entire British coastline, visiting every lifeboat station along the way and raising money to help save lives at sea. And this Summer, they...
Category: Articles
Botton's Amusement Park Skegness
When Botton's Amusement Park, Skegness, opened for the summer season, the whole of the first day's proceeds were donated to the RNLI. Backed by a pirate ship, Jimmy Botton (r) hands a cheque for £1,220 to Councillor Ken Holland,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Spartan
PALLING.—On the 6th April, at about 7 A.M., the s. s. Spartan, of Botterdam, bound from Hamburg to London, with a cargo of sugar, grounded on the Hasborough Sands during a dense fog. On the following morning, the fog having cleared, the...
The Belgian Yacht Phaedra
Lifeboat tows yacht to safety of Dunkirk The Dover coxswain /assistant mechanic Anthony Hawkins and crew members David Pascall and Rodney Goldsack have been a warded the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum following an eight-hour...
Elmela
Aground on Goodwins REPORTS OF SHIP'S LIGHTS in the vicinity of East Goodwin Buoy were passed to the honorary secretary of Walmer lifeboat station by Dover Straits Coastguard at 2130 on Saturday December 10, 1977. The East Goodwin...
Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire. — During the morning of the 4th of February, 1952, a strong north-easterly gale was blow- ing and the sea was heavy. The Whitby fishing vessel Lead Us was at sea, and at noon she wirelessed asking if it were possible to...
The S.S. Brika
JUNE 16TH. CROMER, NORFOLK. At 7.48 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the S.S. Brika, of Swansea, was ashore on the Haisborough Sands. A N.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a light sea.
It was foggy. At 8.5 A...
A Sailing Boat (4)
Walmer, Kent.—At 12.50 P.M. on the 6th July, 1939, a message was received from the Deal coastguard that a sailing boat with five people on board was flying an oilskin in her rigging near Deal Bank Buoy. A strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a...
Sheraton
Fenit, Co. Kerry. At noon on the 22nd of January, 1959, the life-boat Hilton Briggs put out in a heavy swell to the help of the motor vessel Sheraton of Rotterdam. A gale was blowing from the north-north-east, and the tide was flooding. The...