LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Anna Precht
On the 18th September Caister supplied another stir- ring story of the sea, and while there is unfortunately some loss of life to record, the Life-boatmen, the men who " never turn back," have performed a fine rescue of...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
FOLKESTONE. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life- boat station at Folkestone, in accordance with the wishes of the local residents, as an additional safeguard for life-saying pur- poses for that part of the coast, the...
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Harlington, of Sunderland
About half-past 7 o'clock, P.M., on the 4th October last, during a gale from S.E., signal lights were seen off the Scroby Sand. The Caister life-boat was again launched, and in about an hour from the time the signals were seen she...
Some Fishing Crafts
On the 1st March, during a N.E. gale ac- ! companied by a heavy ground sea, in- ; formation was received that some of the fishing craft were in distress off' the j Head. The Life-boat at the No. 1 j station ...
A Yacht
TWO LIFE-BOATS IN SEARCH FOR YACHT Torbay, Devon. On the 27th September, 1962, an exercise with the Torbay life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent had been arranged for seven o'clock in the evening, but at 6.41 the coastguard informed the...
Thomas and Sons, Martha Jane, Glanmanai & Perseverance
FlSHGUARD, SOUTH WALES. On the 22nd March, at about 7.30 A.M., a signal of distress was shown from a vessel at anchor in the bay, where she had been riding with others during the night. The wind was blowing a strong gale from the N.N.E., at...
Angus Rose and Mizpah (1)
Montrose, Angus, and Anstruther, Fifeshlre.—On the afternoon of the 9th of February, 1953, a wireless message reached the Montrose life-boat station from the fishing boat Angus Rose, which had a crew of two, that she had lost her rudder, but...
None (5)
Arbroath, Angus.—At 7.22 on the night of the 17th of February, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that two girls were marooned on a rock east of Auchmithie, about four miles north of Arbroath, and at 7.33 the life-boat Robert Lindsay was...
Past and Present
50 Years Ago The following article appeared in the December, 1936, issue of THE LIFEBOAT: The Last of the Life-boat Horses.
WHEN the motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee, 1910-1935, reached Wells, Norfolk, on llth February...
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Brittany
— At about 6.30 P.M. on the 21st August the Cox- swain of the Life-boat sighted a steamer making for the Harbour, when she struck the bar and at once commenced to drift ashore. As the vessel appeared to be quite unmanageable and in a...