LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Energy
Aldeburgh, Suffolk - At 5 a.m. on 9th March, 1967, it was reported that the motor fishing vessel Energy had asked for assistance a mile north east of the Shipwash lightvessel. The life-boat The Alfred and Patience Gettwald was launched at...
Jenny Wren
Crew transferred to casualty in near-gale conditions The chief of operations has written to Bembridge lifeboat station commending the coxswain and crew for their efforts during a five-hour service in rough conditions on 14 July...
Wimborne and District Riding Club
Over 100 horses and riders took part in a sponsored ride organised by the Wimborne and District Riding Club. The ride was over a 15-mile course starting from the ancient monument of Badbury Rings. Each rider to complete the course was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dane
OCT. 17TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
- At about 1 A.M. the life-boat watchman reported that a vessel was standing into danger near the Middle Binks. A light, variable wind was blowing. The sea was smooth. At 1.15 A.M. the...
Hasting Double
Hastings’ relief Mersey class lifeboat Royal Shipwright was called out on two medevacs in the same week.
On 12 March, the lifeboat crew brought a fisherman safely ashore, having stabilised his injured ankle. This was the...
Category: Articles
Help of Navy and Air Force.
The Navy and Air Force have been no less generous. During 1940 the Navy contributed £2099, nearly five times as much as in 1939. The appeal to the Air Force was made in September 1940. Up to the end of February 1941 the contributions...
Category: Articles
Anglian, of Dublin
The steamship Anglian, of Dublin, was stranded during heavy weather on the " Main," under the North Foreland lighthouse, on the 7th December. The Kingsgate life-boat put off, but her services were at first...
Diana, of Eroskjobing
Again, on the 31st January, one of the most gallant of the many gallant Life- boat services that are from time to time recorded took place in the neighbourhood of Montrose. For two days previously a strong gale had blown from the south- east...
British Queen, of London, and Brig Valiant, of Jersey
A very- sudden and severe storm was experienced here on the 10th February, when no less than six vessels were wrecked at the mouth of the Tyno within a short dis- tance of each other, besides others that received considerable damage in...
United States Life-Saving Service
AT the close of the fiscal year which ended on the 30th June, 1903, there were embraced in the Life-saving Service of the United States no less than 273 stations, 196 of which were established on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, 60. on the...
Category: Articles