LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Artificer
NORTH DEAL, WALMEH, AND RAMS- GATE, KENT.—The Life-boats Charles Dibdin, Civil Service No. 4, and Charles and Susanna Stephens were launched a few minutes after midnight on the 4th- 5th April, in answer to signals of distress, the steamer...
Evelyn
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—Shortly before 8 P.M. on the 15th February, signals of distress were observed opposite Caister, and the Life-boat Covent Garden was launched with all despatch. On arrival outside the Barber Sand the ketch Evelyn, of Jersey,...
Theodore Kassopulos
COXSWAIN PILOTS GREEK VESSEL Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 9.25 on the evening of the 6th October, 1962, the police informed the honorary secretary that a light had been reported flashing a mile eastward of Hartlepool.
There...
Lifeboat Lottery
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Category: Articles
Mrs. Polly Donkin
A fish-wife of Cullercoats, Northumberland. 73 years old, awarded the Institution's Gold Brooch.
During the past eight years she has collected £272 out of the £1,055 which the fish-wives of Cullercoats have... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Yacht
OWNER OVERBOARD Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 11.56 p.m. on 2gth July, 1965, two distress flares were reported to have been seen to the north-east and at three minutes after midnight on the 3oth the life-boat Louise Stephens was...
Resolute
A fierce W.N.W. gale sprang up shortly before midnight on the 6-7th January and increased as the night advanced. At about 1 A.M. the ketch Resolute, of New- castle, which was at anchor in the roads, made signals of distress as the three men...
Life-Boat Charts for Yacht Clubs
As in the past four years, the Institu- tion has again supplied free to all yacht clubs which wished to have it a copy of the chart of life-boat stations round the British Isles which appears in the annual report. This chart, besides ...
Category: Articles
M.F.V. Karemma
Crew of five rescued ABERDEEN LIFEBOAT, the 52' Bamett Ramsay-Dyce, slipped her moorings at 1854 on Friday, March 12, and headed for Aberdeen Bay, after information had been received from HM Coastguard that MFV Karemma was broken down...
Sea Caress, of Skibbereen and The Gem
JANUARY 1 7TH. - BALTIMORE, CO.
CORK. At 9.50 at night friends of the crew of the motor fishing boat Sea Caress, of Skibbereen, reported that the boat was in distress five miles to the south-east of Baltimore Harbour, and...