LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Silver Medal Awarded to Hampshire Cafe Proprietor
SHORTLY before one o'clock on the afternoon of the 30th of March, 1959, which was Easter Monday, a 30-feet motor fishing boat with three people on board, who were returning from a pleasure trip, capsized at the entrance to Christchurch...
Category: Services
Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar
THIS year there will again be a Christ- mas card and pocket calendar for sale.
The card is of eight pages with the Institution's crest embossed on the out- side. Inside are Christmas greetings and a picture in colours...
Category: Advertisement
ONCE TRAINED NEVER FORGOTTEN
You never forget your RNLI training. For our lifeboat crews, the ability to assess a situation and take immediate action is vital. When Isles of Scilly boatman and retired lifeboat Coxswain Andy Howells saw a boat capsize during a wildlife...
Category: Articles
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Flamborough, Yorkshire - At 5.50 p.m. on 31st August, 1969, the coastguard reported that two youths were cut off by the tide at Selwick bay. At 6.20 the life-boat Grace Darling, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in a moderate...
Polynesia
Information having been given to the Coxswain of the Life-boat that a vessel had been seen ashore off Beachy Head, during a strong W.S.W. breeze, a heavy sea, and a thick fog on the 24th April, the Lifeboat Michael Henry was launched at...
Dorie
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At half past two in the afternoon of the 1st of August, 1949, an urgent message was received from the Shoeburyness police that a woman in a motor yacht was drifting into the boom. The life-boat Greater London, Civil...
An Aeroplane (24)
OCT. 5TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. An aeroplane was reported to have sent out a distress signal, but nothing could be found.
-Rewards, £26 2s..
An Aeroplane’s Dinghy (1)
OCTOBER 25TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE.
An aeroplane’s dinghy was reported to have been seen, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £12 8s..
Lerwick's First Lifeboat the 51Ft Barnett Lady Jane and Martha Ryland Leaving Harbour In Rough Weather
Lerwick's first lifeboat, the 51ft Barnett Lady Jane and Martha Ryland, leaving harbour in rough weather.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishing Boats
At 6 A.M. on the 9th January, in smooth but thick weather, the fishing-boats of Johnshaven put to sea. An hour or so later the sea commenced to rise and the S.E. wind increased to a gale, and by 10 o'clock it was so rough that it was...