LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sunwood
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. — At 2.35 in the afternoon, on the 17th of October, 1950, the coastguard reported that a motor yacht, apparently deserted, was drifting, about a mile from Manorbier Point. At 2.45 the life-boat John...
Tonton Alexandre
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 6.55 on the morning of the llth of February, 1959, the coastguard at Portpatrick told the honorary secretary that a Frenchtrawler was in difficulties between Corsewall and Campbeltown. Further enquiries were made...
Norwal and Svint
JULY 10TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
At 2.40 in the morning the Stepper Point coastguard reported that an SOS was being flashed six miles N.N.E. of Stepper Point.
As it was known that convoys were passing and...
Rescue relay
When the crew of a stricken cargo boat found themselves being pushed towards Cape Wrath, two lifeboat crews were called into the gale for a 13-hour rescue relay
It was around 8pm on 7 December...
Category: Articles
Brigadier-General Noel M. Lake, C.B.
BY the death last Christmas of Briga- dier-General Noel M. Lake, C.B., late of the Royal Engineers, at the age of 82, the Institution has lost a friend who for ten years gave it devoted service as a member of the Committee of Management....
Category: Obituaries
Alabama, of Goole
HUNSTANTON.—Early on the 14th April the schooner Alabama, of Goole, while on a voyage from Cliff Creek to Hull was wrecked on the Woolpack Sands, during a gale at E.N.E., accompanied by a heavy fall of snow. The Life-boat Licensed Victualler...
An Aeroplane's Dinghy (1)
APRIL 20TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.
At 12.37 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that an aeroplane towing a target had come down in the sea about two miles west of the harbour. Most of the regular life-boat crew were out...
November 24, 1934
November 24, 1934: an oak tree from Northumberland is planted in Battersea Park, London, in memory of Grace Darling. [The editor would be interested to know if the tree still thrives in 1985.1. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Memories of An Old Life-Boatman
" I AM writing a few lines to thank you for the life-boat journal you send me, and also my pension I receive at the end of the year. I am very interested in the life-boat. I was born in Clovelly on May 31st, 1869, and in 1887, when I...
Category: Articles
None (10)
Mine Host at Amble, When Amble's 44ft Waveney class Margaret Graham launched on 5 December 1989 to act as a safety boat for some RN divers about to explode a war-time mine she also found herself acting as a different kind of mothership -...