LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Teakwood
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 10.12 on the morning of the 26th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small cabin cruiser was drifting a mile off shore near Old Castle Head. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was...
Sea Mist
JANUARY 1ST. - POOLE AND BOURNEMOUTH, DORSET. On New Year’s Eve, at about 9.30 P.M., the coastguard notified the life-boat authorities that a boat was ashore on Christchurch Bar, but not in immediate danger. A moderate E. wind was blowing...
Corgi
ORG CHESHIRE'S CHAMPION 'Jimmy' hit the roads in 1998 on a nationwide tour to raise funds for The Cancer Research Campaign. Since then, he's raised a six figure sum. With your help he'll do even...
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Harriet Masser from Windsor
Not wanting to see a bumper crop of apples from the garden go to waste, Harriet Masser from Windsor made herself a poster, washed all the apples and placed them in a basket on her doorstep, asking passers-by to put donations for the RNLI... - View image in PDF
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H.M. Trawler Flotta
OCTOBER 29TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 5.30 A.M. the coast-guard reported signals of distress, and a few minutes later said that a vessel was ashore one mile north of Rattray Head. At 6.35 A.M. the Peterhead motor...
A British Aeroplane (4)
OCTOBER 27TH. - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN. At 2.5 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that a British aeroplane had crashed in the sea. The weather was fine, the sea calm. At 2.20 the motor life-boat George and Sarah Strachan was launched...
Emma Ives
The Duke of Northumberland Steam Life-boat was also called out on the night of the 9th November by a telephone message from the Chief Officer of H.M.
Coastguard at Waterloo, stating that a vessel was making signals of...
A Pinnace
LERWICK'S 27 HOURS' SEARCH.
Lerwick, and Aith, Shetlands.—4th October, 1939. In the morning a Royal Air Force aeroplane came down on the sea about twenty-five miles N.E.
of the N.E. corner of...
Pilot Me
.—On the morning of the 30th October the coxswain was told that the local fishing boat Pilot Me was at sea. A strong N.E. breeze was blowing, with snow showers, and heavy seas were breaking over the pier exten- sions, and right out to the...
Johnny Eager
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. — At 5.17 in the evening of the 8th of January, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that the motor fishing vessel Johnny Eager, of Swansea, was making distress signals, and at 5.40 the life-boat William Gammon —...