LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat v. Submarines
THE story of the services rendered by the Life-boats in direct connexion with the war cannot be told until the end of the war. When it is unfolded it will be seen that the Institution has carried out, both in the letter and in the spirit,...
Category: Articles
Magdalen Hughes
HUNA, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.—On receipt of a telegram from Brougb, the Life-boat Caroline and Thomas was launched at 6 P.M. on the 21st June, proceeded to the Fentland Skerries and found the fishing lugger Magdalen Hughes, of Kirkcaldy, stranded...
Would-be rescuers rescued
Porthcawl’s B class lifeboat Rose of the Shires was launched into the sweltering heat of 26 June to help six people in the water. Three children were being swept out to sea on bodyboards; their mother and grandfather tried to swim out to...
Category: Articles
Tania of Rochester
Wicklow - At 8.25 a.m. on 29th July, 1967, it was learnt that a yacht was in distress 15 miles southeast of Wicklow. A rope had fouled her propeller. The life-boat J. W. Archer was launched at 8.40 in a strong south easterly wind and a rough...
Trapped!
The steamer looks as if she were going on her way. In fact she is held fast by the sands.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Small Boat (2)
MAY 1ST. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.
At 5.30 in the afternoon the Dock Board reported a small boat, with two boys on board, off C.6 Red Buoy, in the Mersey, rapidly drifting out to sea. The No. 2 motor life-boat Edmund and...
Fidra
CRUISER ADRIFT Selsey, Sussex. At 2.5 p.m. on I4th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a German vessel had given fuel, and a course for Portsmouth, to the crew of the motor cruiser Fidra twenty-one miles south of...
Ladies of Reigate and Redhill Guild
Sherry and mince pies are a recipe for success, as the ladies of Reigate and Redhill guild proved when they made them the object of a partv held in Reigate Town Hall last November. It look no more than two hours to raise £825 from the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
None (1)
SWIMMER WAS WEARY At 11.38 a.m. on nth December, 1964, the police told the honorary secretary that cries for help had been heard to seaward of the western undercliff by a local doctor. Visibility was very poor due to fog. At 11.46 the...
Constanze (1)
WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE AND HARWICH.
—The Honourable Artillery Company Lifeboat, stationed at Walton, was summoned by a telegram from the Sunk Light-ship, on the 4th December, stating that signals of distress were seen S.W. of...