LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Reserve Life-Boat Which Was on Temporary Duty at Weston-Super-Mare Somerset Broke from Her Moorings on 12Th April 1969 and Was Wrecked the Picture (Left) Sho
The reserve life-boat, which was on temporary duty at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, broke from her moorings on 12th April, 1969, and was wrecked. The picture (left) shows her before she was taken in tow by the Barry lifeboat and (above) the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
SEATON CAREW, DURHAM.—On the night of April 12th, signals of distress were observed on the North Gare Sand, at the entrance to the River Tees, the wind from the S.E. with a high sea on. The Seaton Carew life-boat was at once launched and...
Category: Services
D Class Named at Angle
D class named at Angle Ethel Clark, tireless RNLI fundraiser achieved a lifetime's ambition when she officially named Angle's lifeboat Isabella Mary on the 22 September.
The lifeboat was funded by the legacy of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lady Jane
HAVING HEARD from Aberdovey Coastguard at 1820 on August 10, 1974, that a member of the public had reported seeing someone falling out of a motor cabin cruiser crossing [Dovey Bar to seaward, Aberdovey honorary secretary immediately...
The Imperial Airways Aeroplane Boadicea
Dungeness, Kent, and Hastings, Sussex.
—On the evening of the 25th September it was reported by the coastguard that the Imperial Airways aeroplane Boadicea, bound from Croydon to Paris, was missing. She had last been seen...
Memories of An Old Life-Boatman
" I AM writing a few lines to thank you for the life-boat journal you send me, and also my pension I receive at the end of the year. I am very interested in the life-boat. I was born in Clovelly on May 31st, 1869, and in 1887, when I...
Category: Articles
Tumbler
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire.—At 12.10 on the afternoon of the 18th of August, 1957, the police reported that the yacht Tumbler, of Lytham, had been wrecked near the 14|-mile buoy in the Ribble Channel. The buoy had dragged several...
Dorshie
— On the afternoon of the 6th November the coastguard telephoned that a small vessel, one and a half miles S.E. of St. Mary's Island, was showing signals of distress. A moderate breeze was blowing, with a heavy ground swell, and a...
The S.S. Firelight and Riviere
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—At 6.5 on the morning of the 10th of June, 1953, the coxswain heard a message on his wireless set from Cullercoats radio station that the S.S. Firelight had collided with the trawler Riviere. of Grirnsby, about five...
Lily
DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—At about 4 P.M. on Saturday, the 21st July, the steamer Lily, of Liverpool, which had left that port in the morning with six hundred and twenty-eight passengers for Douglas, ran aground on the rocks at Onchan Harbour,...