LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lucille
On the llth November, when the fishing-boats were returning in a gale of wind and a heavy sea, one of them capsized. As the others were seen to be in considerable danger the Life-boat George Leicester was promptly launched and proceeded to...
Two Small Sailing Yachts
ESCORTING YACHTS IN A FOG Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 11.80 on the night of the 24th of July, 1947, it was reported that two small sailing yachts from Howth were lost in fog, and the motor life-boat R.P.L. was launched at 11.45. There was no wind...
Annual Report
AT the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Thursday, the 26th day of April, 1855, REAR-ADMIRAL His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G., PRESIDENT, in the Chair, The following Report...
Category: Annual Reports
Royal Visit to Holy Island
H.M. THE QUEEN and H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh visited Holy Island on the 29th of June, 1958. They landed at the life-boat slipway and were received at the life-boat house by the Duke of Northumberland, Treasurer of the Institution, and the...
Category: Articles
Fishing Boats
The Women of Newbiggin.
Award of the Thanks of the institution Inscribed on Vellum.
ON the morning of January 26th, the whole of the Newbiggin fishing fleet had gone out in fine weather, but while they...
Guiding Star
HAUXLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND. — The Life-boat Algernon and Eleanor was launched at 1 P.M., on the 15th April, and stood by the fishing coble Guiding Star, of Hauxley, which had been overtaken by a very heavy sea. The other boats had landed, the...
Helene
At 2.43 P.M., on the 19th June, the Coastguard reported to the Coxswain of the Life-boat Mark Lane that a vessel was aground on the Cross Sand, and in seven minutes the Life-boat was launched.
A south-easterly wind was...
Golden Harvest
Lerwick, Shetlands. At 10.23 on the night of the 16th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel was ashore at the entrance to the north harbour. At 10.37 the life-boat Claude Cecil Staniforth left...
Valkyran
Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 6.25 on the morning of the 8th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing dinghy had burnt a red flare half a mile south of the piers. At 6.54 on an ebbing tide the life-boat...
A Naval Aeroplane (1)
- Selsey, and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 1.13 A.M. on the 20th October, 1939, a message was received from the coastguard, that the Bognor police had reported a naval aeroplane down in the sea off Bognor. A northerly breeze was blowing. The...