LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Selskar and S.S. Nordic
Walmer, Kent—On the night of the 31st of March, 1949, the S.S. Selskar, of Newcastle, and the S.S. Nordic, of Stockholm, were in collision near the South Falls Buoy, and the Ramsgate life-boat was launched, but her services were not needed...
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AIRCRAFT CRASHED St. Davids and Tenby, Pembrokeshire.
At 4.15 p.m. on 23rd February, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at St. Davids that an aircraft on a training flight from the Royal Naval Air Station...
May (1)
REDCAR, YORKSHIRE. At 6.30 in the morning of the 30th of March, 1946, Saltburn coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the life-boat station that a motor vessel was reported ashore on the Salt Scar rocks.
A light...
Category: Services
An Amazing Grace
This Spring saw the official reopening of the RNLI Grace Darling museum in Northumberland, after years of redevelopment. Was it worth the wait? Carol Waterkeyn pays a visit to find out
In 1938, a museum opened in Bamburgh...
Category: Articles
September (1)
SEPTEMBER MEETING FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. On the 11th June, 1942, a Spitfire aeroplane was on a practice flight when the engine failed and the pilot landed on the sea. There was a slight swell with a light N.E. wind. The aeroplane sank...
Category: Services
Maria W.
TWO LIFE-BOATS OUT TO DUTCH VESSEL ON FIRE Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk. At 4.36 on the morning of the 17th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston that a ship was...
Fertile
Aith and Lerwick, Shetlands; and Stronsay, Orkneys. At 5.28 p.m. on Tuesday, i5th June, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Lerwick life-boat station that a 46-foot motor fishing vessel bound for Lerwick from Kirkwall...
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New Ways of Raising Money
Money-raising for the R.N.L.I, sometimes begins accidentally, as Mr. S.J. Roberts discovered at the Earls Court Radio Show in September. Mr, Roberts, a member of the Institution's staff, is also honorary secretary of the Gauge i Model...
Category: Donations
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CLUNG TO WRECKAGE Penlee, and Sennen Cove, Cornwall.
At 2.58 a.m. on 23rd October, 1963, the coastguard at St. Just was informed by Land's End radio that a Spanish vessel had gone aground near Mount's...