LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wild Rocket
Aground in gully THE DUTY ASSISTANT HARBOUR MASTER at St Peter Port, who is a deputy launching authority (DLA) of the lifeboat station, was informed by the Signal Station at 0428 on Tuesday October 11, 1983, that the French yacht Wild Rocket...
Helen N. MacAlister
St. Mary's, Stilly Islands. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 26th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor tug was burning flares between Annet Head and St. Mary's. The life-boat Guy and...
Your Letters
90 years ago I wonder whether you would be interested in this photograph, taken on Lifeboat Day in Croydon in 1909, 90 years ago? My brother, aged 5 (left), and I, aged 4, carried the tin lifeboat collection boxes during a street parade on...
Category: Correspondence
Talvaldis (1)
JULY 9TH. - SALCOMBE, AND TORBAY, DEVON. At 7.10 P.M. the Prawle Point Signal Station reported that a vessel was being bombed by enemy aeroplanes three or four miles away. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing, but the sea was smooth. At 7.30...
H.M.S. Birnbeck
MARCH 27TH. - WESTON-SUPER-MARE, SOMERSET. At 8.15 P.M. it was learned from the officer commanding H.M.S. Birnbeck, that the motor vessel with a crew of four was ashore off Howe Rock, in Berrow Bay, and would foul the coast defences if she...
Five Pile Drivers
At 1.30 A.M.
on the 19th March, during a whole N.N.E. gale and very heavy sea, signals of distress were seen from five Pile Drivers which were moored in the River Humber. The Life-boat Charles Burton was launched and...
Rewards to Life-Boatmen
For their services to the Norwegian vessel Kings Star, which went aground on the North Shoal - a dangerous rock eight miles off the Orkneys - on 28th May, 1966 (THE LIFE-BOAT, September, 1966), Coxswain A. K. Sinclair, of the Stromness...
Category: Awards
Fig 3: Buoyancy Air Cases Each Shaped to Fit and Marked With Its Position Are Taken Out When Opening Up the Hull for Examination at Partial and Complete Survey
Fig.4:.. . and stowed on one side. Edian Courtauld, her decks stripped for action, was at Cardnell Brothers for partial survey. Her new air bag has already been fitted to her after cabin top.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Whitby, Yorkshire. — In the early afternoon of the 5th of October, 1949, seventeen geological students from Aberdeen University were cut off by the tide off Black Nab. Three of them scrambled through deep water and breakers for help, and...
People and Places
Lifeboatmen pick a winner The 81st RNLI lifeboat lottery was drawn by lifeboat crew members on 30 April at the RNLI depot in Poole. The draw raised over €197,000 and first name out of the drum was Mr C Chestnutt from Worcestershire, who won...
Category: Articles