LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy (1)
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 11.15 on the morning of the 21st of April, 1957, the Wallasey police reported that a rubber dinghy was being swept out to sea one mile off Harrison Drive. The life-boat coxswain and motor mechanic went to the drive...
The S.S. Wandle
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.— At 6.48 in the evening of the 3rd of June, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that the s.s. Wandle, of London, was approaching the harbour and wished to land a sick man. The motor life- boat Louise...
An Aeroplane (90)
JUNE 25TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 2.25 A.M. the coastguard reported that a British bomber was believed to be down several miles to the eastward, and the motor life-boat J. B. Proudfoot, on temporary duty at this station, was...
None (31)
MAY 19TH. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE. A Spitfire aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but it had crashed on land. - Rewards, £10 2s. (See Llanerchymor, “Services by Auxiliary Rescue-boats;” page 67)..
the Sarah Ann, Sarah Brigham, and Eventide
Holy Island, Northumberland. — At 11.23 in the morning of the 17th of January, 1949, it was decided that the life-boat should put out to stand by three local fishing cobles, the Sarah Ann, Sarah Brigham, and Eventide, which had been...
Provider (4)
APRIL 27TH - 29TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE ; ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE ; PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE ; AND FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.
While the motor fishing vessel Provider was on passage in ballast from Caernarvon to...
Charlotte
FISHGUARD.—On the 7th Oct. a very heavy S.S.W. gale was experienced here. Several vessels were lying at anchor in the roadstead, one of which, the schooner Charlotte, of Portmadoc, was anchored very far out, and fears were entertained for...
Raymond Baxter Who Opened ' the Modern Lifeboat' Exhibition Studying Crew Position and Vhp Radio of the Atlantic 21 With Miss Margaret Weston Director of the Scie
Raymond Baxter, who opened ' The Modern Lifeboat' exhibition, studying crew position and VHP radio of the Atlantic 21 with Miss Margaret Weston, Director of the Science Museum.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Signals of Distress
Required to Tie used and displayed on and after the 1st November, 1873, in accordance with the 18th section of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1873.
"In Die Day-time,—The following si, together or separately, shall be...
Category: Articles
Tony Krowmann
WITHBRNSBA.—At 9 o'clock on the morning of the 14th October a messenger from Sandy le Mere, two miles N. of Withernsea, stated that a vessel was ashore there, too far off for the rocket apparatus to reach her, that the sea was getting up...