LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ice-Bound
The new Motor Life-boat for the Humber arriving at Newhaven from Cowes on February 13th, 1929, d u r i n g the severe frost.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat House: Change of Address
OWING to the fact that the present Head- quarters at Life-boat House, Charing Cross Road, have for some years been too small for the staff required to deal with the constant expansion of the Institution's activities, the Committee of...
Category: Articles
Noel and Progress
Early in the morning of the llth March several fishing boats went to sea, and all except two returned before low water. Th wind had freshened considerably from the east, and there was a lot of sea on Whitby Rock, which would sweep up the...
A Steamer
At 7.50 A.M. on 20th May a message was received from the Coastguard Station that the Kentish Knock Lightship had reported a large steamer ashore on the Knock Sands, but that she was not making a distress signal. Communica- tion was...
An Aeroplane (1)
23rd April.
An aeroplane fell into the sea, but the services of the life-boat were not required.—Rewards, £6 6s. (See also Shoreboat Services, page 115.).
Queen Mab
BRANCASTER, NORFOLK. — A telegram was received from the coastguard reporting a vessel in distress ofi Bnrnham Flats, on the 19th March, and as she was showing a signal for help the Life-boat Alfred S. Qenth put off to her assistance, at 1.45...
A Boat
HOLYHEAD.—A telephone message having been received from the Breakwater Lighthouse stating that a boat, containing one man, was drifting across Church Bay and was evidently in need of assistance, on the llth June, the coxswain of the...
Plouer
About 1 P.M. on the 29th June, during a whole N. by E.
gale, information reached Margate that a ketch was in distress off Reculvers.
With considerable difficulty owing to the heavy surf breaking on the...
Glide
At about 4.45 P.M. on the 8th January a flare was observed E.N.E. of the Harbour from a schooner riding about a mile off.
The Life-boat crew were summoned and the Life-boat Mary Isabella was quickly alongside the schooner,...
A Small Boat
At 3.45 P.M., on the 25th April, the Coastguard reported that a small boat had capsized off Whitmore Bay, and two men were clinging to her. The Life-boat, John Wesley, was smartly launched, and, in tow of a tug, pro- ceeded to the capsized...