LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Arctic Adventurer
TWO INJURED MEN At 3.53 a.m. on 8th December, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the trawler Arctic Adventurer of Hull had two seriously injured men on board and another man who had died. The trawler was about 90 miles...
Ken Black
Ken Black rounds the Needles on his way to breaking the record time for circumnavigating the Isle of Wight on a sailboard. The challenge is laid down by Carlsberg who, because Ken was to donate his prize money to the RNLI, doubled the amount... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Arbroath Memorial
A BRONZE plaque has been erected in the storm wall of the fish quay at Arbroath harbour to commemorate the disaster in which six members of the crew of the Arbroath life-boat Robert Lindsay lost their lives on the 27th of October,...
Category: Articles
Margaret
At about 6.10 A.M. on the 19th March the ketch Margaret, of Bideford, which was riding in the Clovelly roads for shelter, burnt flares to attract attention. The crew of the Life-boat Elinor Boget were promptly assembled and the boat launched...
The Sailing Boat Seabird
Caister, Norfolk.—On the 3rd January seven young men put out in the sailing boat Seabird on a trip to the steamer Crackshot, which had stranded off Caister two days earlier. A fresh west wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The Seabird got...
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FEBRUARY 10TH. - STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES.
Rockets had been reported north of Pabby Island, but when the life-boat was nearing the position given, she intercepted signals saying that an aeroplane crash was suspected and that...
Arosette
Newhaven: At 2003 on Monday July 3 HM Coastguard informed Newhaven lifeboat station that the German coaster Arosette, two miles south of Beachy Head, had broadcast a 'mayday' calling for immediate help. Newhaven's 44ft Waveney...
Emma
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At three in the afternoon of the 24th of March, 1952, the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board telephoned that a fishing boat had been reported aground on the revetment near C.16 buoy in the Crosby Channel and listing...
An Outboard Motor Boat
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—15th May, 1938. An outboard motor boat had capsized, but four of the five people on board were picked up by a rowing boat and the other swam ashore.—Rewards, £5 13s..
An Anson Aeroplane (4)
SEPTEMBER 9TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. An Anson training aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but two men in a rowing boat had rescued three of the crew and recovered two bodies. A third body had been left in the aeroplane.- Rewards...