LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Nile
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—At about 5.30 A.M.
on the 29th October, during a strong breeze from the W.S.W.,and thick weatheraccompanied by rain, rockets were fired from the Cross Sand Light-vessel. The Caister No. 2 Life-boat Godsend...
Lone Star
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 19th of June, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Lone Star, with one man on board, was twenty-four hours overdue from...
Opportune
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 6.4 on the evening of the 23rd of November, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a fishing boat near Proudfoot was flashing signals and had burnt red flares. At 6.30 the life-boat City of Edinburgh was launched....
The American Steamer J. P. Mitchell
JANUARY 18TH. - WALMER, KENT. A request was received from the naval authorities at Ramsgate for the life-boat to take out a doctor to the American steamer J. P.
Mitchell, urgent help being needed by four of her crew. A...
Hollyhow and Harp
GROOMSPORT, Co. DOWN.—On the 16th June, while a strong gale was blowing from N.N.W., accompanied by a very heavy sea, a message. by telephone was received from Bangor stating that assistance was needed by distressed vessels. The Lifeboat...
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent Presenting Alderney Coxswain Stephen Shaw With the First of His Two Bronze Medals
Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Kent, presenting Alderney Coxswain Stephen Shaw with the first of his two bronze medals.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Eastbourne Life-Boat Museum
MKS. ASTLEY ROBERTS, the president and chairman of the Eastbourne Ladies' Life-boat Guild, has presented the Institution with a four-sided illu- minated electric clock, to stand on the roof of the old life-boathouse, which is now the...
Category: Articles
Tony
Wells, Norfolk.—At 6.0 on the night of the 30th of January, 1952, the life- boat coxswain received a message that two life-boatmen had fallen overboard from their fishing boat Tony while working on their nets, and at 6.44 the life-boat Cecil...
Mermaid Marine Engines Ltd
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Category: Advertisement
The Coningbeg Lightvessel
Kilmore, Co. Wexford - At 6 p.m.
on 27th May, 1967, the honorary secretary was asked by the Irish Lights Office if the life-boat would bring ashore a member of the crew of the Coningbeg lightvessel whose mother was...