LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Elisabeth
Wells, Norfolk.—During the morning of the 19th November, 1937, the coastguard reported a vessel ashore about two and a half miles east of the entrance to Wells harbour. She was the auxiliary ketch Elisabeth, of Hamburg, bound from Hamburg to...
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Thurso, Caithness-shire.—During the night of the 28th January the medical officer for Caithness telephoned that Wick Radio had received a message from a trawler that when passing Stroma Island, in the Pentland Firth, she had seen Morse...
Obituary
SINCE the last number of The Life-boat appeared there have died Mr. R. O.
Hill, for many years honorary secretary at the stations of Drogheda (now closed) and Clogher Head ; Captain Thomas McCombie, of Dublin, a gold and...
Category: Obituaries
Apex and Gloria J.
Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 10.8 p.m. on 3151 August, 1966, two cabin cruisers were reported aground at South Shoebury. At 10.28 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was launched in a moderate south westerly breeze and a...
Edith
Arklow, Co. Wicklow. — At 6.50 on the night of the 19th of November, 1951, the motor mechanic reported flares north of the harbour and at seven o'clock the life-boat Inbhear Mor was launched with the second cox- swain in charge. The sea...
Seaham Life-Boat the Next Day
In spite of all the pounding the hull, as can be seen, was little damaged. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Doubled Up
Eliza Fraser, Victoria Jones and Ella Neame teamed up on the last day of the Swanage regatta to paint stones collected from the seaside and sell them in aid of the RNLI.
John, Eliza's dad, volunteered to double whatever... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Clovelly, Devon. — At 4.18 on the afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1952, the Hartland Point coastguard tele- phoned that a boy was reported to be cut off by the tide at Shipload Bay, and at 4:30 the life-boat William Cantrell Ashley was...
A Sailboard
Exhausted windsurfer A WINDSURFER had got into difficulties 300 feet off Morecambe stone jetty on the afternoon of Tuesday August 20, 1985. He was spotted from the promenade by a passer-by who immediately rang Liverpool coastguard. By 1420...