LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Colette
Margate, Kent - At 10.14 p.m. on 15th April, 1968, it was reported that a cabin cruiser was aground on the rocks three-quarters of a mile from Foreness point. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched at 10.30 in a...
Royal Opening for Kirkwall Boat House
HRH The Princess Royal visited Kirkwall Harbour, during a tour of Orkney, where she formally opened the lifeboat house and unve-iled two dedication plaques. The plaques had been specially prepared from a granite curling stone which had been... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Chrisian
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 5.36 on the afternoon of the 25th of October, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that the cabin cruiser Chrisian, with one man on board, needed help about twelve miles north-west by west of Beachy Head. The S.S....
Noel II, Golden Gate, Venus, Galilee, Lady Kitchener, et al
The fishing fleet put to sea early on the morning of the 4th February. At about 1 P.M., on 'the flowing tide, the sea made rapidly, and conditions became dan- gerous for the boats. The motor life- boat Margaret Marker Smith was launched...
Charles H. Merz
ESCORT AFTER MOTOR VESSEL IS REFLOATED Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 1.30 on the morning of the 31st May, 1963, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a vessel was reported to have run ashore at the north pier at the entrance to the River...
A Trimaran
Two saved from trimaran Lowestoft - East Division The coxswain and second coxswain of Lowestoft's Tyne class lifeboat Spirit of Lowestoft have received letters of thanks from the Chairman of the RNLI following a service on 5 July 1989 in...
St. Main
Arklow, Co. Wicklow. At 7.15 on the evening of the 12th of January, 1961, flares were seen north-north-east of Arklow. There was a moderate south- south-westerly wind with a correspond- ing sea, and the tide was ebbing. At 7.30 the life-boat...
A Hawker Hendley Target-Towing Aeroplane
AUGUST 9TH . - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.
At 12.29 in the afternoon a message was received from the coastguard that a Hawker Hendley target-towing aeroplane had crashed into the sea. A light northerly wind was blowing, with a...
Life-Boat Days In 1930. 1,000 Per Cent Profit
FOE many years the Life-boat Day has been one of the Institution's most successful forms of appeal. It still remains so, in spite of the criticisms made in the Press of this form of appeal on account of the very large number of charities...
Category: Articles
Fishing Yawls
, YOBKSHIBK. — On the morning of Sunday, the 2nd September, the wind blew a fresh gale from the S.S.E. Several fishing yawls were lying at anchor in the bay, and, the sea being heavy, their crews were unable to go off to them in their own...