LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pish and Chase
At 3.30 p.m. on 19th August, 1969, while already at sea, a member of the crew of life-boat 44-001 on temporary duty at Sheerness saw a capsizeddinghy half a mile south west of Darnett Ness. There was a light wind with a slight sea. It was...
A Sea Otter Aeroplane
Appledore, Devon.—At 11.58 in the morning of the 15th of July, 1948, an urgent message was received, through the coastguard, from H.M.S. Harrier, that the pilot of a Fleet Air Arm aero- plane had baled out five to fifteen miles north-west of...
Nine Years After
THE coxswain at Eastbourne has received a picture postcard from Sweden: " Many hearty greetings to you and warm thanks for wonderful rescue of 1930 to all from B. Lindfors." The postcard had a picture of Trafalgar...
Category: Articles
Clare S, Northern Star, Fair Ladies and Press On
Caught out ON THE MORNING of Thursday January 31 a fleet of fishing boats sailed from Hartlepool in comparatively good weather which, however, deteriorated fast. Within an hour, a near gale, force 7, had blown up from the east north east...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st April to the 30th Sept. 1878
PALLING.—On the 6th April, at about 7 A.M., the s. s. Spartan, of Botterdam, bound from Hamburg to London, with a cargo of sugar, grounded on the Has- borough Sands during a dense fog. On the following morning, the fog having cleared, the...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1957
Time of Date Launching Station 1957 Jan. 1 23.07 Newcastle 2 04.55 Stronsay „ 3 10.07 New Brighton 3 19.40 Weymouth ..
4 02.00 Tenby 4 21.25 Blyth ,, 6 06.25 Stornoway ..
7 19.45 Arklow 8 02.30 New...
Category: Services
Southend Mayor Ken Cater at the Helm
Southend Mayor Ken Cater at The Helm. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coming Ashore
One of the four survivors of a steamer which was blown up on 15th November, 1939, and sank in a few minutes with her crew of thirteen. Nine were drowned. Four were picked up from the sea by another steamer, three of them badly injured, and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Intrepid Travellers John Ford and Melvyn Webster Made a 1000 Mile Dash Last October from St.Helier Jersey to Aith Shetland and Raised £2250 for the Rnli
Two intrepid travellers, John Ford and Melvyn Webster, made a 1,000 mile dash last October from St Helier, Jersey, to Aith, Shetland, and raised £2,250 for the RNLI.
First they flew from St Helier to Southampton, this... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Isa Simpson and Sunbeam
Courdon, Kincardineshire.—At about 3.30 P.M., on the 19th January, 1939, a report was received from Johnshaven that the local fishing boats Isa Simpson and Sunbeam were at sea, and that owing to the bad weather they were making for Gourdon...