LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hannah Rathkens
On the 12th December, at 12.45 P.M., the coxswain of the Life-boat was informed by some boatmen that they had seen a vessel on the Goodwin Sands, apparently wreck, with only one mast standing.
The crew were assembled, and...
A Sailboard
Exhausted windsurfer A WINDSURFER had got into difficulties 300 feet off Morecambe stone jetty on the afternoon of Tuesday August 20, 1985. He was spotted from the promenade by a passer-by who immediately rang Liverpool coastguard. By 1420...
Georgia
RAMSGATE.— Signal guns were heard from the Goodwin Sands at 6 o'clock on the morning of the 20th March. The Bradford and Vulcan were at once manned and left the harbour, proceeded to the Sands, and ultimately found the barque Georgia, of...
Problem
During a moderate S.W. gale with a rough sea on the 7th August, a steam-tug reported at about 9 P.M. that a vessel was ashore on Taylors Bank. The crew of the steam Life-boat Queen were assembled, and the boat proceeded to the position...
A Motor Boat and a Sailing Dinghy
Swanage, Dorset.—At 6.5 in the evening, on the 29th of August, 1950, the coastguard telephoned a message from the St. Albans Head coastguard that a motor boat was two miles south- west by west of the Head. There was no sign of...
A Launch at Aldeburgh In 1872
The Pulling and Sailing Life-boat " George HounsfieU." She served from 1870-1890, and rescued 99 lives. - View image in PDF
She is still at Aldeburgh, and is used as a store on the beach.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Herring Coble Thankful Arthur
An E.S.E. gale suddenly sprang up on the 28th March while the small herring coble Thankful Arthur, of Filey, was at sea, and as the heavy sea showed every sign of increasing, the Life-boat Queens- bury was launched to her assistance, and...
Work Out What Injuries They Have.
They then have to work out what injuries they have.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two New Life-Boats Named
NEW life-boats provided for the stations at Islay (Hebrides) and Penlee (Cornwall) were formally named during the summer. The Islay ceremony took place on the pier at Port Askaig on the 22nd of July, 1960, when Lady Jean Fforde named the new...
Category: Inaugurations
Scottish Lifeboat Council Annual General Meeting
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Scottish Lifeboat Council was held in The Freemason's Hall, Edinburgh, on May 23 this year. Captain Alexander Ramsay of Mar, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Council, was in the chair at the...
Category: Meetings