LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Inflatable and a Canoe
Sixteen minutes: five children rescued 1436: SUNDAY JUNE 15, 1986: honorary secretary of Rye Harbour lifeboat station, while working in the boathouse hears Camber Coastguard on radio to Dover Coastguard requesting immediate launch of Rye'...
Listings
Disaster survivor names new lifeboatA ceremony in New Quay, Wales on 7 May 2004 was steeped in history. On the 89th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German U-boat torpedo, it was a survivor of that tragedy who named a new...
Category: Articles
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The Humber, Yorkshire.—15th January.
Distress rockets had been reported from a vessel north of Mablethorpe which had then turned seawards, and nothing could be found.
—Rewards, 13*. 6d.; Permanent paid...
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FEBRUARY 8TH. - THE HUMBER , YORKSHIRE. A red flash or distress signal had been seen off Withernsea, but nothing could he seen or heard, and after six hours at sea during the night the life-boat returned.
- Permanent paid...
A Rubber Dinghy
Margate, Kent.—At 4.5 in the after- noon of the 2nd of April, 1949, the coastguard reported that two boys in a rubber dinghy were going round in circles three-quarters of a mile off Cliftonville. At 4.58 they telephoned that the boys were...
Lifeboats Beyond 2000
'Lifeboats Beyond 2000' identified a need to provide inshore lifeboats with even greater capabilities. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Service In Appalling Conditions
AT 12.55 on the afternoon of the 8th of January, 1956, the Spurn Point coast- guard rang up the Humber life-boat station to say that the motor vessel Stevonia, of Goole, had wirelessed that her cargo had shifted and that she had a heavy list...
Category: Services