LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Drakedene
Plymouth, Devon.—At 9.20 on the night of the 4th of February, 1951, the King's Harbour Master reported that the motor vessel Drakedene, of Cardiff, with a crew of nine, had dragged her anchors and was on the rocks near Jennycliff. At...
Aldborough
The life-boat formerly placed at Sizewell- Gap, on the east coast of Suffolk, has been for the present transferred to Aldborough, five miles farther south, as a more serviceable spot, and where it can be...
Category: Articles
Shoreline
THE MAIN SHORELINE office has now moved from Salisbury to the new Headquarters building at Poole. This has entailed the movement of records and equipment and changes in clerical staff.
While we are, of course, making every...
Category: Articles
Albert
On the morn- ing of the 12th July the schooner Alert, of Falmouth, whilst working down Channel, bound for Truro with coal, was seen to miss stays, and before the crew could wear ship she struck on Taylor's Bank. The Life-boat John and...
Past and Present
75 years ago From The Life-Boat of September 1919 in the somewhat flowery prose of the time the September 1919 issue of 'The Life-Boat' paid a tribute to a fictitious retiring lifeboatman under the heading 'The Old Coxswain'....
Category: Articles
St. Kieran
Galway Bay.—At 10.30 on the morn- ing of the 1st of June, 1954, the life- boat coxswain noticed that the trawler St. Kieran, of Galway, had gone aground at Straw Island about one mile east of Kilronan. At eleveno'clock the life-boat...
The Flamborough Life-Boat Friendly Forester Going Out on Exercise In a South East Gale and Snow-Storm on 12Th March 1969
The Flamborough life-boat Friendly Forester going out on exercise in a south east gale and snow-storm on 12th March, 1969.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
General Burwood and Struan
A message was received on the 19th January from the coast- guard stating that a vessel was ashore two miles south of Belhelvie coastguard station, and the Aberdeen No. 1 motor life-boat Emma Constance put out at 7.10 P.M. She found the Hull...
Nestlea and Dereske
NOVEMBER 1 8 - 2 0TH. - BALTIMORE, COURTMACSHERRY, AND BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. About 10.30 A.M. a wireless message, which had been picked up at Cork, was received at Baltimore that the steamer Nestlea, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, had been attacked...