LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Isabella Stuart
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—The schooner Isabella Stuart, of Ardrossan, bound from the Sound of Mull for Liverpool with larch trees, showed signals of distress, being in a dangerous position about a quarter of a mile E. of the North Pier during a...
A Vampire Aircraft (1)
Barry Dock, and The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 1.5 on the after- noon of the 12th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretaries at Barry Dock and The Mumbles that a request had been received from the Sea Rescue Co-...
Syren
CAISTER, NORFOLK. — Large flares were seen in the direction of the Middle Cross Sand, during a strong Southerly wind and heavy sea, on the 18th of January.
The No. 1 Life-boat, Covent Garden, was launched at 1.45 A.M., and...
An Aeroplane (58)
APRIL 11TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. A British bomber was reported to have come down in the sea, but nothing was found, and while the life-boat was searching the news came that the bomber had crashed 45 miles away. - Rewards, £13 6s. 6d..<...
Earl Russell, K.G., on Sailors' Orphans
AT the opening, on the 29th July last, of the new Asylum at Snaresbrook for Merchant Seamen's Orphans, EARL RUSSELL, K.G., H.M. Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, made some appropriate remarks on the occasion.
<...
Category: Articles
Kite-surfers
Kite-surfers hit by sudden squall Members of the Littlehampton inshore lifeboat crew were called into action in September 2003 when a group of kitesurfers were suddenly swept across the beach and out to sea by strong offshore windsThe alarm...
Margate Then...
Last year marked the centenary of the loss of Margate rescue surf boat Friend to all nations along with nine of her crew. The surfboat was operated by a group of local boatmen in tandem with the RNLI lifeboat - generally the same men would... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Present Life-Boat House (left) at Ilfracombe Nestles at the Foot of Lantern Hill Where There Is a Fishermen's Chapel Dedicated to St. Nicholas
The present life-boat house (left) at Ilfracombe nestles at the foot of Lantern Hill where there is a fishermen's chapel dedicated to St. Nicholas. The new life-boat L/oyd'j II (right) is launched by tractor over the site of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cromer Lifeboat Museum: Don Harvev (I) the Honorary Curator and Jim Smith Station Honorary Secretary With Some of the Piclures of Coxswain Henry Blogg
Cromer lifeboat museum: Don Harvev (I.), the honorary curator, and Jim Smith, station honorary secretary, with some of the piclures of Coxswain Henry Blogg.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. River Humber
Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire, and Barmouth, Merionethshire.—The Abersoch coastguards reported to the Pwllheli lifeboat station at 12.10 in the morning of the 4th October, 1938, that a vessel was dragging her anchors in St. Tudwalls Roads. A...