LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Walmer
WALMER, KENT On the 18th January, 1944, the Walmer life-boat rescued the crew of thirteen of H.M. Anti-submarine boat No. 25.
COXSWAIN JOSEPH R. MERCER was awarded the bronze medal..
Category: Medals
Thalatta, of Harwich
JANUARY 19TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 2.48 in the afternoon the coastguard reported a sailing barge flying a signal.
A fresh north-west wind was blowing, with a heavy swell and squalls of snow. The motor life-boat...
Lost crew remembered
Wreaths were laid to mark the 50th anniversary of the Broughty Ferry lifeboat disaster on 8 December.
Eight crew members lost their lives while going to the aid of the North Carr lightship off St Andrew’s Bay. They were...
Category: Articles
5 mountains, 2 days
Five crew members from Tower Lifeboat Station took on a gruelling challenge in June, climbing the highest mountains in each of the countries the RNLI serves – England (Scafell Pike), Scotland (Ben Nevis), Wales (Snowdon), Northern Ireland...
Category: Articles
H.M. Tug Fairplay II
MARCH 2ND. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
At 11 A.M. it was reported that H.M. Tug Fairplay II had stranded on the West Salt Scar Rock, near Redcar. At 11.45 A.M. the motor life-boat Louisa Polden was launched.
The...
Sybil of Goole
On the 13th December, the sloop Sybil, of Goole, got ashore on Thorpeness, when the life-boat was launched to her aid, and landed her crew of 3 men in safety: 1 man was washed out of the life-boat by a heavy surf.
Majestic of Dundee
On the 26th Oc- tober, 1859, the schooner Majestic, of Dun- dee, ran for the harbour of Benvick-on- Tweed, it blowing a heavy gale at that time from the N.E. She succeeded in crossing the bar, but drove ashore on Spittal Point. The life-boat...
Val of Sandness, Norway
During a gale from the S.E., and in a heavy sea, on the 23rd Jan., a schooner was observed to run into St. Andrew's Bay at daybreak, in the di- rection of the West Sands, and close to the broken water. On a gun being fired to warn her of...
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FEBRUARY 17TH . - FILEY, YORK-SHIRE. Flashing lights had been seen at irregular intervals, but no sign of any vessel in need of help was found, although the coxswain took the life-boat in right under the cliffs, and among the sea defences,...
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JANUARY 11TH. - PEEL, AND PORT ERIN, ISLE OF MAN. Amber-coloured rockets had been seen and the Peel life-boat went out. Later a red flare was seen in the direction of the life-boat and the Port Erin life-boat put out, but nothing was found.-...