LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Nuphar
PALLING.—At 11 A.M. on the 2nd Jan., the steamer Nuphar, of Shields, bound from Antwerp to Shields, was observed in distress off Palling, having lost-her screw propeller. The No. 2 Life-boat, British Workman, was thereupon launched, and...
Fishing Boats
CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND. — A strong sea having risen with a dense fog on the 10th of May, the Life-boat Cooperator No. 1 was launched at about 8.30 A.M. to the assistance of three fishingboats whose return was rendered...
£25,000 Tynemouth Appeal.
In April 1941, the Tynemouth life-boat and life-boathouse were destroyed, in an air-raid, by two bombs which fell right on the house. In order to provide a.
new boat and house, an appeal was launched in February of this...
Category: Articles
Orari
Aground on the bar ON THE EVENING OF Wednesday July 11, 1984, a yacht, in difficulties in the estuary of the River Ribble, fired a red flare. She could be seen by the auxiliary coastguard at Lytham at anchor, and pounding in heavy...
A Boat (1)
JUNE 3RD. - DOVER, KENT. A small boat was reported to have broken down, it was believed, with troops from Dunkirk on board, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £3 15s..
Sea Spray
At 6.10 a.m. on 17th September, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small speedboat which had left Ramsgate harbour for Margate at 2.35 had not arrived at 6.33. As the life-boat was about to search for the boat a message...
Binty
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 2.46 on the afternoon of the 23rd of May, 1959, the coastguard told the motor mechanic that a message had been received from a resident at Hove that the crew of a small boat about two miles off the King Alfred...
Antelope
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 8.10 in the morning of the 15th of September, 1948, the police telephoned that a vessel was firing distress signals about one mile off Bangor, and at 8.55 the motor life-boat Civil Service No. 5 was launched. A...
A Rowing Boat
Moelfre, Anglesey.—On the 21st of July, 1951, two visitors who had hired a rowing boat got too far out.
Unable to get back they drifted out to sea. When they did not return and could not be seen the owner raised an alarm. A...
Brighton's Atlantic 75 Named
On 19 October some 200 people gathered in Brighton Marina village square for the naming ceremony of the Atlantic 75 lifeboat Thelma Glossop which was funded by Mr and Mrs Roy Glossop, in memory of Mr Glossop's first wife,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs