LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Navigator
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—A dense fog was experienced here on the 24th July, accompanied by rain, thunder and much lightning. At about 4 o'clock in the afternoon the fog cleared, and disclosed vessel just striking the inside of the Barber Sand....
Kathleen
NOVEMBER 19TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. The local fishing coble Kathleen was still at sea at dusk. The tide was ebbing fast and there was a heavy swell. It was thought advisable for the motor life-boat to put out and at 4.15 the Herbert Joy...
A Graceful Recognition of Services
the ON the 20th October, an interesting ceremony took place at the Sailors' Home, Holyhead, when the presentation of a Silver Medal and a reward in money, which had been voted by the Norwegian Government, was made to the coxswain and...
Category: Awards
Chairman's New Year Message
New Year Message from the Chairman, Commander F. R. H. Swann, QBE, RNVR...
0 One hundred and fifty years ago Sir William Hillary laid down six rules for his new Society of which the first and most important was the...
Category: Articles
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On the even- ing of the 1st April, two soldiers were observed to be surrounded by the tide, on the North Warp Bank, about three miles from Flectwood. The Coastguard imme- diately launched their boat and went to the rescue ; they reached the...
Delila
. Aberdeen, and Newburgh, Aberdeenshire.
—Early on the morning of the 4th November, 1937, the steam trawler Delila, of Aberdeen, ran aground about a mile, south of the Belhelvie coastguard station. She was homeward bound...
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Fishguard, Pembrokeshire—During the afternoon of the 6th of March, 1947, the Ministry of Food in Haverfordwest asked the life-boat to take food to Porthgain as the roads were impassable owing to heavy snowfalls. It was arranged that she...
Albert
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At three in the morning of the 12th of October, 1948, the owner of the fishing smack Albert, of Boston, reported that the smack was to the southward, leaking, and in diffi- culties, and the motor life-boat Anne Allen...
Fishing Cobles
CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND.
Eight fishing-cobles were endeavouring to return home while a heavy sea was breaking on the bar on the 31st January.
As they would incur considerable risk in crossing, the Life...
Focus on Dungeness
A visit to the Kentish life-boat station and its crew is described in what is hoped will become a regular series on life-boat stations by Margaret Peter.
The men of Dungeness who form the life-boat crew are proud of their...
Category: Articles