LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An R.A.F. Aeroplane (1)
FEBRUARY 16TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
A message from the coastguard reported that an R.A.F. aeroplane had come down in the sea two miles north of the Reculvers, On her way out the life-boat picked up on her wireless the position...
A Vessel (35)
DECEMBER 23RD. - LYTHAM - ST.ANNE’S, LANCASHIRE. The motor life-boat Dunleary had just returned from searching for an aeroplane when a message was received from the senior naval officer at Preston asking the life-boat to take a message to a...
Various Vessels (1)
JANUARY 11TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY, and PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. During the afternoon information was given by the coastguard to both stations that vessels had been torpedoed or mined six miles west of Rhoscolyn. The Holyhead motor...
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Category: Photographs
Schoolboys Get Awards
TWO 14-year-old Scottish sea cadets who rescued a friend from the choppy waters of Campbeltown Loch are to receive special awards for their actions from the Royal National Life-boat Institution.
The boys, Ian Campbell of...
Category: Awards
Vortigern
POLPEAR, LIZARD.—On the 6th August, the Life-boat Edmund and Fanny was launched at 9 a.m., and proceeded to the four-masted barque Vortigern, of and from London, bound for Calcutta with a cargo of jute. She was found to be safely anchored ia...
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 2 November show that so far during 1990: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 3,594 times (an average of more than 9 launches a day) More than 1,190 lives were saved (an average of nearly 3...
Category: Articles
A History of Rockets
The First Sixty Years, by C. R.
Thompson, states in the form of a well-illustrated and well-produced booklet the story of the development of the Schermuly pistol rocket apparatus.
It was in May 1897 that...
Category: Articles
Fishing Cobles (2)
— Soon after daybreak on the 1st May some of the fishing cobles went off to their lobster and crab-pots. About 6 A.M. the N.N.E. wind increased to a moderate gale and the sea became very heavy.
A good look-out was kept, and...
Garthclyde
On the 1st February the motor vessel Garthclyde, of London, bound in ballast from London to Blyth, got into difficulties off Filey and dropped both her anchors.
A N.E. gale was blowing with a very rough sea. The...