LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Breeches Buoy Rescue In Whole Gale
AT 4.40 on the afternoon of the 26th of November, 1954, the honorary secretary of the Newhaven (Sussex) lifeboat station, Mr. R. K. Sayer, was told by the coastguard that the Danish auxiliary schooner Vega was making water and might need...
Category: Services
Antwerp Maritime Exhibition and Life-Saving Congress
AN International Maritime and Colonial Exhibition has been held at Antwerp this year, from April to October, on the occasion of the Centenary Celebrations of the Declaration of Belgian Independ- ence. Great Britain was one of the principal...
Category: Articles
Seaham Station Closes
At about 1500 on Saturday February 24, the 37ft Oakley lifeboat The Will and Fanny Kirby launched down the slip for the last time, circled the harbour and headed out to sea escorted by Sunderland and Hartlepool lifeboats and with the added...
Category: Articles
A Speed Boat (1)
TORBAY, Tuesday June 16, 1987: Brixham Coastguard alerted the honorary secretary of Torbay lifeboat station at 1515 that a small speedboat had run aground off Thatcher Rock and that one of its four occupants had injured her ankle jumping...
Laurita Once the Kirkcudbright Lifeboat Priscilla Mcbean Built In 1921 and Still In Commission on Lake Windermere
Laurita, once the Kirkcudbright lifeboat Priscilla McBean, built in 1921 and still in commission on Lake Windermere. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (3)
JANUARY 30TH - 1ST FEBRUARY. SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, and with the help of fifty soldiers the motor life-boat Foresters Centenary was launched at 12.6 P.M.
A light S.W. wind was...
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JULY 2 0TH. - MARGATE, KENT. An airman was reported to have come down by parachute in the sea off Kingsgate, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £14 3s. 6d..
Liver
On the 20th October the sloop Liver, of Carnarvon, was totally wrecked, during a very heavy gale of wind, on the Wharf Sandbank, about three and a half miles from Southport.
As soon as the vessel was seen in distress from...
Gleneden (2)
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT MOELFRE JANUARY 28TH - 29TH. - HOLYHEAD, AND MOELFRE, ANGLESEY, AND LLANDUDNO. CAERNARVONSHIRE.
At 7.30 in the evening of the 29th of January, 1940, a message came to the Moelfre life-boat station...
Snow Joke: Pity This Poor Fund Raiser;
Snow joke: pity this poor fund raiser; after a hard morning in March with his collecting box outside Rod White's fish shop in Cray don, during which time he collected a magnificent £27.10, he sadly disappeared into a premature, and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs