LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Just Seconds to Spare As Cleethorpe's D Class Lifeboat Races Through the Finishing Gate
Just seconds to spare as Cleethorpe's D class lifeboat races through the finishing gate. - View image in PDF
(Photo courtesy Grimsby Evening Telegraph). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Vessel (2)
OCTOBER 20TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
The life-boat had gone out to help in an attempt to salve a vessel which had been stranded since 1939, but the operations were not successful. - Property salvage case. (See Cromer, “Accounts...
Aeroplanes (4)
AUGUST 18TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. Aeroplanes had been reported down in the sea after an air battle, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £4 13s.
(See Ventnor, “ Services by Shore-boats “, page 149.).
Yacht Veruna
In mode- rate but hazy weather in the afternoon of the 5th March the steam yacht Varuna, of New York, stranded on the edge of the Gunfleet Sands. At 2.40 P.M.
the haze lifted, and the Coastguard on watch observed the vessel...
Committee of Management
FOUR new members have been co-opted to the Committee of Management of the Institution. They are Captain R. E.
Cowell, C.B.E., R.D., R.N.R.; Mr. P.
Denham Christie; Field-Marshal Sir Francis Festing, G.C.B....
Category: Committee
Morcel
CARDIGAN.—In the early morning of the 16th March, while a strong gale was blowing, signals of distress were seen from a ketch in Cardigan Bay.
The Life-boat Lizzie and Charles Leigh Clare was promptly launched and went to...
Inshore Lifeboat Services September October and November 1975
Abersoch, Gwynedd October 10 and November 5.
Aberystwyth, Dyfed September 19 and 21.
Bangor, Co. Down October 5.
Barmouth, Gwynedd September 21.
Barrow, Cumbria...
Category: Services
Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar
THIS year there will again be a Christmas card and pocket calendar for sale.
The card is of eight pages with the Institution's crest embossed on the outside. Inside are Christmas greetings and the above picture of a...
Category: Advertisement
Ocean Bride
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—On the morning of the 5th November, a three-masted vessel was observed ashore on the East Burrows or Sunk Sand, but no signals could be made out even with the aid of a powerful telescope. The wind was blowing from the S.S.W....
The Austrian Barque Suez
At daybreak on the 20th December, the Austrian barque Suez was observed riding at anchor with signals of distress flying, about three miles and a half east of Newquay. The life-boat at that place was quickly launched, and found the vessel...