LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cover Picture
Some years ago Campbell MacCallum took a portrait of the people of Wells lifeboat station.
The cover picture on this journal is a similar portrait taken last autumn by Peter J. R.
Stibbons of Hunstanton... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Granada
At 8.25 on the morning of the 2nd January, a message was received from the Formby Light-vessel, stating that a steamer ap- peared to be aground on Taylor's Bank, and later the information was confirmed.
The Life-boat...
The Last of the "Malvoisin."
IN the last issue of The Lifeboat we gave an account of the Life-boat services to the British ketch, Malvoisin, which, built in 1883, was wrecked last May off Calais and broke up on the rocks.
To the three services to this...
Category: Services
In Guildhall Square Portsmouth
In Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, on Saturday April 25 the then Lord Mayor of the City of Portsmouth, Councillor Miss M. W. Sutcliffe, presented to Sir Alec Rose, Freeman of the City of Portsmouth and president of Portsmouth (Langstone... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Screw Steamer Akaba
Early in the morning of the 10th November, the crew of a fishing lugger arrived at Gorleston, and reported that they had seen flares and rockets about the lower part of Winterton Eidge. A gale from the S.E. by E. was blowing at the time, and...
An Aeroplane (17)
FEBRUARY 19TH. - PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
A British Whitley aeroplane had crashed in Abersoch Bay, but Royal Air Force speedboats rescued five of the crew and picked up two bodies. - Rewards £5 14s.
Two Boats
At about 8.30 P.M. on the 10th August it was reported by visitors that a small fishing boat had not returned, and was believed to be fog-bound about one and a half miles S.E. of Bembridge. The Motor Life-boat Langham was launched in a smooth...
A Boat from Sira
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At three o'clock on the morning of the 18th of February, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat from the Swedish tanker Sira of Vaster- vik, with a crew of four, had not re- turned...
None (1)
15th October.
Rockets had been seen by the North Goodwin light-vessel, but no vessel in need of help could be found.—Rewards, £11 19s. 9d..
A Fishing Boat (7)
Blyth, Northumberland.—23rd December, 1938. Anxiety had been felt for a fishing boat, but she was found by the life-boat fishing, and in no need of help.—Rewards, £8 5*. Qd..