LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rowing Boat
Port Erin, Isle of Man. At 6.10 on the evening of the 8th of September, 1960, the second coxswain told the honorary secretary that a rowing boat was reported missing and might be in difficulties between Bradda Head and Flirlwick Bay. The...
Helder
APRIL 27TH. - WALMER, KENT. Shortly before 6 A.M. a Kingsdown boatman reported that a steamer was ashore in Old Stairs Bay, Kingsdown. There were patches of fog, with a light south-westerly wind blowing and a smooth sea. The motor life-boat...
Speedwell
Whitehllls, Banff shire. — At 9.30 in the morning of the 21st of November, 1951, a fishing boat wirelessed that another fishing boat, the Speedwell, of Macduff, was in difficulties twenty miles north-north-west of Whitehills and at 10.5 the...
The Late Commander Stopford C. Douglas, R.N.
IT is with very great regret that we announce the death of Commander Stopford Cyril Douglas, R.N., who had been Deputy Chief Inspector of Lifeboats for the past eight years. He had been ill for several months, had undergone two operations,...
Category: Obituaries
Meetings of Committee, 1852
Thursday, 8th January, 1852. THOMAS WILSON, Esq., in the chair.
The minutes of the previous meeting having been confirmed,— It was resolved, on an application from the Local Committee at Aldborough, Suffolk, to grant from...
Category: Committee
Beatrix Fernande
Whitehills, Banffshire.—At 9.12 on the night of the 14th of December, 1955, the Banff coastguard reported that a vessel had sent a wireless distress message that she had run on the rocks west of Gardenstown. At 9.25 the life-boat Sr. Andrew,...
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COASTGUARD, HELICOPTER AND LIFE-BOAT SEARCH Flamborough, Yorkshire. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 2nd June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen over the cliffs. A helicopter had landed on...
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Galway Bay.—At 6.45 on the evening of the 7th of March, 1956, the local doctor asked if the life-boat would take him to Inishere to attend a maternity case. As no other boat was available, the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson put out, with...
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BABY BORN IN LIFE-BOAT HOUSE Galway Bay, Co. Galway. At eleven o'clock on Saturday the 3rd of August, 1963, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat could be used to take an expectant mother to the Galway Regional...
Above: 'A Life-Boat Rescue
Above: 'A Life-boat Rescue with the Help of the Life-Saving Net' by Charles Pears RQI, published in 1924.
Category: Drawings