LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Antje
The brigantine Antje, of Warsingsfehn, whilst bound from London to Plymouth with a cargo of cement on the 8th May, stranded in moderate weather, on the north-west part of the " Shingles." Her position was perceived, and as the...
Sovereign
Tyne saves crew of fjve from stranded fishing vessel Fraserburgh's Tyne class lifeboat City of Edinburgh was involved in a service on 11 September 1995 which although fairly short in duration was commended by the divisional inspector of...
Another Success for Queen Victoria
The beautifully restored 1887 pulling and sailing lifeboat, Queen Victoria, was in action again on 30 May when she was hauled overland from Bembridge to Sandown on the Isle of Wight. Queen Victoria is thought to be the oldest surviving RNLI... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gazelle
Plymouth, Devon ; and Fowey, Corn- wall. At 4.42 on the afternoon of the 18th of March, 1960, the signal station at Longroom informed the honorary secretary of the Plymouth life-boatstation of a report received from the pilot cutter. This...
Right: Mr Vic Cole With His Mersey Model and the Police Team
Right: Mr Vic Cole with his Mersey model and the police team, Sergeant Geoff Thompson and PCs Alan Neasham, lain Wylie and Steve Morse, who all gave up three weeks' leave to make the trip. Photo Steve McClean, Wiltshire... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dinghy (15)
At 1.50 p.m. on 5th August, 1967, the coxswain was informed that a dinghy had capsized off Seapoint. The life-boat John F. Kennedy slipped her moorings 10 minutes later in a fresh southerly wind and a choppy sea. The tide was...
Antje
In response to signals of distress fired by the Cork light-vessel on the 30th October, the Steam Life-boat City of Glasgow was sent to sea. On reaching the light- vessel, the master reported that a vessel was burning flares to the...
Cambrian
Dungeness, Kent. — At 9.15 on the morning of the 29th of October, 1950, the Ramsgate coastguard reported that the motor cruiser Cambrian had asked for the help of the life-boat; and at 9.23 the Charles Cooper Henderson was launched...
People and Places
Lifeboats in the South Seas - in TongaJust before Christmas, Swanage lifeboat station received news of their old lifeboat, Thomas Markby, which served at the station from 1928 to 1949.
The letter came from the Kingdom of...
Category: Articles
Ceres
BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—The barque Ceres, of Eonne, bound from Cronstadt for Berwick with a cargo of battens, in trying to enter the harbour, on the evening of the 24th August, struck on the bar and was driven by the heavy seas on Spittal Beach,...