LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Centenaries of Life-Boat Stations
Presentation of Vellums signed by the Prince of Wales.
THBEE presentations of Centenary Vel- lums to stations have taken place since last summer—at Sunderland and Hartle- pool last October, and at Newhaven in April of...
Category: Articles
Book Reviews
Mr. Michael Elder has succeeded admirably in his task of presenting anew a number of the great rescues carried out by men of the life-boat service. These are contained in For Those in Peril (John Murray, 18s.).
Most of the...
Category: Articles
Central Appeals Committee
Committee EXCELLENT SUPPORT has continued this quarter for the various projects of the Central Appeals Committee. Captain Phelps, master of John Biscoe of the British Antarctic Survey, on arrival at Southampton handed over more than £31...
Category: Committee
Gipsy
JULY 9TH. - LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE.
At 1.55 in the afternoon the Preston Corporation house barge telephoned that a vessel had signalled to them that a boat was in distress on the north side of the river, near Wall End...
Santa Gata and Norwegian Tanker Realf
DEC. 1ST. - CROMER, NORFOLK, AND THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. Shortly after 7 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel standing by two and a half miles north of the life-boat station wished to land a rescued crew. A westerly...
Inshore Lifeboat Services for December 1974 January and February 1975
Aberystwyth, Dyfed January 3.
Atlantic College, South Glamorgan February 1 and 2.
Beaumaris, Gwynedd December 8.
Broughty Ferry, Angus December 2.
Eastney, Hampshire...
Category: Services
Sea Hawkinge
Humber, Yorkshire. — During the afternoon of the 31st August the motor yacht Sea Hawk, of Nottingham, got into difficulties after her engine had broken down, and ran aground in a very dangerous position three miles N.E. of Spurn. She was...
Today's Appledore Crew In Action (See Letter Opposite on P25)
Today's Appledore crew in action (see letter opposite on p25) Photo: Nigel Millard. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Korab II
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.— At 4.55 in the afternoon of the 10th of October, 1949, the Gorleston coast- guard telephoned a message from the Cross Sand lightvessel that a motor fishing vessel had broken tlown about a mile to the...
A Motor Trawler
Lowes toft, Suffolk. — 17th January, 1939. A motor trawler had grounded on the Newcombe Sands, but she refloated unaided.—Rewards, £27 11s. 6d..