LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Hurricane Aeroplane (1)
SEPTEMBER 8TH. - BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 9.43 in the morning a message came from the coastguard that a British Hurricane aeroplane had crashed into the sea two miles east of Embleton, some seven miles N.N.E. of the...
Old Goody
RAMSGATE.—On the 8th December, the Life-boat Bradford went out at 6.30 A.M. in tow of the harbour steam-tug Vulcan, and rescued the crew consisting of seven men of the brigantine, Old Goody, of Faversham, bound from Hartlepool for Ramsgate...
Ceremonies
Silloth - Atlantic 75 Spirit of Cumbria and new lifeboat house St Bees - new lifeboat house Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Kent had a busy two days in October when, during a tour of Cumbria, she named one lifeboat and opened two new...
Category: Inaugurations
Lightvessel Breaks Adrift
AT 9.49 on the evening of the 12th November, 1961, the Deal coastguard informed the Walmer honorary secre- tary that the East Goodwin lightvessel, which had been buffeted by heavy seas, had broken adrift from her moorings and was driving...
Category: Services
Islander
The Wreck of the "Islander." A TRAGIC disaster occurred on the coast of Cornwall during a severe gale which struck the coast towards the end of August, when the cutter Islander, of the Royal Yacht Squadron, was driven ashore in...
Kasam
THE LIFEBOAT B class Atlantic 75 lifeboat B-742 Douglas Paley Funding: A gift from Mrs Evelyn Anne Paley, in memory of her late husband Air Commodore Douglas Paley THE CREW Helmsman Gary Stanbury Crew Members Andrew Hallet and Martin Davis...
Naval Launch No. 173
Sennen Cove.
On Saturday, the 29th November, 1919, three naval motor launches left •Queenstown, escorted by a destroyer, oa their way to Southampton to be paid off. During the night the wind got up from S.S.W., and by...
Life-Boat Lost Off Weston
A LIFE-BOAT on temporary duty at the Weston-super-Mare station parted from her moorings on the afternoon of the 12th April, and was driven on to rocks and was so severely damaged that she has had to be written off as a total...
Category: Articles
A Powered Craft
Crew overboard for 35 minutes in darkness and heavy seas Michael Weeks, a crew member aboard Appledore's Tyne class all-weather lifeboat spent some 35 minutes in the water, in darkness and heavy seas, on 3 May 1994 when he was thrown...
Casamance (2)
FEBRUARY 17TH. - HARTLEPOOL, AND SEAHAM, DURHAM, AND REDCAR, AND WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. Shortly after midnight a message came to the Hartlepool honorary secretary’s house from the coastguard that the life-boat was wanted. The honorary secretary...