LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Bronze for selfless braveryOn the same day as the Redcar incident (see page 12] volunteers at Filey too were called upon to save lives.
Particular tidal and weather conditions combined with the local geology to create...
Wreck of the "Endeavour."
ON the 6th of May last a small schooner, the Endeavour, of Ipswich, was driven on shore in Polkerris Bay, about one mile north-west of Fowey, on the south coast of Cornwall. As soon as her perilous situa- tion was observed, the Coast-guard...
Category: Services
Unity
SKEGNESS.—A signal of distress was displayed in the fore-rigging of the sloop Unity, of Boston, bound from Lynn for Sunderland with a cargo of wheat, on the morning of the 25th October, during a fresh N. breeze with snow-squalls and a heavy...
A Year's Halfpennies
FOR the fourth year running the Insti- tution has received a gift of a year'scollection of halfpennies. It numbered 468, or nineteen shillings and sixpence..
Category: Meetings
Exercising With the Irish Air Force Rnlb Helen Wycherley
Exercising With The Irish Air Force Rnlb Helen Wycherley. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Cerne
Whitby, Yorkshire. — At 5.15 in the morning of the 13th of June, 1948, during a thick fog, information was re- ceived that a steamer was on the rocks to the south of the East Pier, and the No. 1 motor life-boat Mary Ann Hep- worth was...
Motor Life-Boats of the Institution. No. 6.—The 41-Feet Beach (Aldeburgh) Type
WHEN the Institution designed two new types of motor life-boat (as described in previous issues of The Life- boat) sufficiently light to be launched off a carriage or the open beach it became possible to use motor power at a large number of...
Category: Articles
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BOY TRAPPED ON A CLIFF Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.—At 9.5 in the evening of February 22nd, 1947, the police telephoned" that a boy was stranded on the cliff-face north of Aberystwyth and that the National Fire Service had failed to find...
Efficient Aid of Coast Guard
In looking over the list of wrecks, no one can fail to be struck at the prominent position occupied by the officers and men of the Coast-Guard Service on all such occasions.
The records of the National Shipwreck Insti-...
Category: Articles
Lovoy
The Norwegian steamer Lovoy, of Haugesund, while bound from Christiansand to Oporto with a cargo of codfish, stranded on the Goodwin Sands, about four miles S.W.
of North Goodwin Buoy, on the 4th July. News of the accident...