LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Midnight Marauder and a Dinghy
Plastic sheeting HM COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Dover lifeboat station at 0452 on Saturday October 17, 1981, that the Dutch yacht Midnight Marauder, being sailed singlehanded, was in difficulty with a fouled...
Briar
At 6.55 P.M. on the 17th April the coastguard at Kinnaird Head telephoned that a motor boat was on fire off Rosehearty, and that the crew appeared to be taking to their small boat. The motor life-boat Lady Rothes was launched at 7 P.M., in...
Florence
At about 8.55 A.M. on 3rd January a message was received from the Coastguard that a ketch, with a distress signal flying, was dragging her anchors near No. 1 Black Buoy, and was in danger of stranding on the Causeway off Puffin Island. The...
Past & Present
100 Years Ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, August, 1888 Issue.
Brighstone Grange and Brooke, Isle of Wight On the afternoon of the 9th March, the ship Sirenia, of Glasgow, bound from San Francisco for Dunkirk with a...
Category: Articles
Burry Port Ladies' Guild Put on a Memorable Performance of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Last Christmas Produced By Janet Cross With a Large Cast of Youngsters W
Burry Port ladies' guild put on a memorable performance of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs last Christmas, produced by Janet Cross with a large cast of youngsters. With only a one-night stand, tickets were sold out weeks in advance and a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Robbe
NINE RESCUED FROM YACHT IN GALE Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 2.35 on the morning of the 7th August, 1962, a man telephoned to say that cries for help could be heard off Bouldnor and that red flares could be seen. Thirteen minutes later the...
An Aeroplane (141)
OCTOBER 2lST. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At 5.54 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard at Skeldon Hill that an aeroplane had come down in the sea offBlakeney Point. A light west breeze was blowing ; the sea was smooth...
The S.S. Haakon
At about 6 A.M. on the 20th April, signals were heard denoting a vessel was on the Haisboro' Sands. The No. 2 Life-boat, Hearts of Oak, was launched, and with the assistance of a friendly tow by a passing steamer, reached the vessel...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, Tor the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
Founded in 1824.—Supported by Voluntary Subscriptions.
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HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN...
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Olive (1)
OCT. 27TH - TORBAY, DEVONSHIRE.
It was reported to the senior naval officer, Weymouth, by an observer on a R.A.F.
aeroplane, engaged on reconnaisance over West Bay, that a motor boat was drifting about ten...