LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Cobles (1)
The Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Hollon the Third was launched at 10.30 A.M. on the 6th December, in a moderate N.E. gale with a heavy sea, and escorted into safety four of the local fishing cobles which had been overtaken by the bad...
Sepoy (1)
On the 13th December the motor life-boat went out to warn the Cromer motor life-boat, which was out on another service, to return to Cromer to the help of the barge Sepoy.— Rewards, £14 13*. (For a full account of this launch see page...
Fidget
On the evening of the 4th May the Foreland coastguard telephoned that a small yacht was in difficulties some distance S.E. of Shanklin pier. The life-boat did not go out, as a motor boat was standing by the yacht. Later the yacht sailed in...
Mary
On the afternoon of the 21st May the motor boat May Belle got into difficulties oft Littlestone.
Her engine had broken down, and she began to drift. She was making her first trip with her owner and five other men on board....
Fair Exchange?
THE Institution recently advertised for sale the motor life-boat at Maryport which has now been replaced by a new motor life-boat. One prospective pur- chaser rang up to say that he would like the boat but had not the money to pay for her....
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (11)
Hastings, Sussex.—25th September, 1939. An aeroplane had been reported down in the channel between Hastings and Le Treport. No position was given. The life-boat and two aeroplanes searched for some time. In the meanwhile the distress call...
Vierge Marie
Penlee, Cornwall.—At 7.40 A.M. on the llth January the police reported a wreck under Tregiffian cliffs. A strong S.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea, and the weather was thick. The motor life-boat W. and S.
was...
Obituary
THE Institution has lost by death a number of its workers and friends since the last issue of The Life-boat was published. Notices of their work for the Institution will appear in the next number..
Category: Obituaries
Scene 4
The rescue. The two men of the smack can be seen in the rigging. - View image in PDF
Photographs reproduced ty courtesy of H. Jenkins, Lowestoft, (For a full account of the service see page 491.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Brighter Hope
Ramsey, Isle of Man;—At 5.17 on the evening of the 22nd of May, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a ship seemed to be on fire six miles east- north-east of Queens Pier. Later on, he reported that she was a drifter and had been taken in...