LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notus and Sunshine
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—-A telephone message was received from the coastguard about 1.30 P.M. on the 18th April stating that a vessel was ashore half-a-mile south of the watch-house. In the absence of the Coxswain, the Assistant Coxswain...
Ellen
The Life-boat, John Burch, had just returned from exercise and been replaced in her house on the 25th August, when a vessel was observed near the Scroby Sands with her sails blown away. The vessel brought up but commenced to drive on to the...
Tekwiji
At about 12.30 P.M. on the 10th of October, a schooner was seen driving dangerously near the outer end of Teignmouth bar. A strong S.S.W.
gale had been blowing all night, but it had then moderated somewhat; the seas however...
Craignair
Torbay, Devon.—At 7.42 P.M. on the 1st June, 1938, the Babbacombe Corinthian Sailing Club informed the Berry Head coastguard that a vessel was flying a distress signal a mile and a half east of Oddicombe, and the coastguard informed the life...
Arienoldus G.
Torbay, Devon.—Early on the morning of the 10th of March, 1956, five •members of the crew of the motor vessel Arienoldus G., of Rotterdam, which was anchored one mile south- east of Teignmouth bar, put off in a small boat to land the mate...
A Rowing Boat
Swanage, Dorset.—At 4.9 on the after- noon of the 16th of June, 1956, thecoastguard telephoned to say that the police had stated that a man had reported seeing a rowing boat with three occupants appear to capsize by the second buoy off...
Edford
Plymouth, Devon.—On the after- noon of the 24th of June, 1950, an explosion, believed to have been caused by an oil stove, set fire to the yacht Edford, of Dartmouth, oft Blackstone Point. A man and .his wife were on board. The woman...
Serenity
Caister, Norfolk.—At ten o'clock in the morning of the 29th of February, 1952, the coastguard reported that a vessel had gone aground off Waxham, and at 10.15 the life-boat Jose Neville was launched. The sea was calm, with a fresh...
Armistice Day, 11th November
The crew of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston motor life-boat, with the vicar of Gorleston, about to embark for the service in memory of those who lost their lives at sea in the great war. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
£43 for a Cigarette-Tin
THE Institution has received a gift of £43 5s. from the Union Castle Mail Steamship Company. It was the result of an auction on board the Warwick Castle of a cigarette-tin engraved by the captain..
Category: Donations