LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Capsized
In November, 1944, the self-righting life-beat at Hastings was struck by a very heavy sea and capsized, throwing three of her crew overboard. She came right way up at once, and the other six men hauled the three on board again. As she...
Category: Articles
Longscar
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 18th of Novem- ber, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the steam traw- ler Longscar, which was making for Hartlepool, had boiler trouble. At 2.30 the life-boat...
Rhyl: PRESTATYN WOMEN DELIVER SUPPORT
Women from Prestatyn Inner Wheel visited Rhyl Lifeboat Station to deliver a considerable donation to their lifeboat appeal, after former Coxswain Peter Robinson gave them a talk about the station’s history.
The women enjoyed a...
Category: Articles
A Yacht
Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 6.24 on the evening of the 1st of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was on the rocks at Orlock Head. The life-boat Sir Samuel Kelly put out at 6.35 in a slight sea. There was a...
A 20 Mile Sponsored Walk In Aid of the R.N.L.I. Set Many Feet Walking from Bognor Regis to Selsey. on the Left Mr F. W. Shearing, Chairman of Bognor Regis Urban Council, Is Shown
A 20 mile sponsored walk in aid of the R.N.L.I. set many feet walking from Bognor Regis to Selsey. On the left Mr F. W. Shearing, chairman of Bognor Regis Urban Council, is shown with some of the walkers before they started their... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (150)
OCTOBER 2ND. - CLOVELLY, DEVON.
Au aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found. Soldiers helped in the launch of the life-boat. - Rewards, £31 5s.
The Launching of the Life-Boat
When wild winds howl along the deep, And bid the ocean mountains rise To thunder on White Albion's steep The vengeance of her native skies, What cheers the storm-tossed mariners, Wrecked on her rock-bound shore, And nerves their hearts...
Category: Poetry
The S.S. Suntrap
Cromer, Norfolk. — At 1.57 in the afternoon of the 19th of November, 1949, the coastguard- telephoned that the S.S. Suntrap, of London, had sig- nalled that she would arrive off Cromer about 3.15 and had asked for the life- boat to land a...
A Rowing Boat
EXHAUSTED MEN TAKEN OFF BOAT Weymouth, Dorset. At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 19th May, 1962, the motor mechanic informed the honorary secretary that a local resident had reported a small rowing boat drifting out to sea off Green Hill...
A Sailing Dinghy, Yacht and Saturn
Eastney, Hampshire. At 2.50 p.m.
on 25th July, 1965, the honorary secretary learnt that a yacht had capsized three miles south-west of the station. At 3 o'clock the IRB launched in a moderate gusting to fresh...