LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Diane
DECEMBER 18TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL.
About 11.30 in the morning messages were received from the coastguard and the R.A.F. that a yacht off Newlyn was dragging her anchors in a dangerous position and in need of immediate help....
Cromer June 20 1986:
Cromer, June 20, 1986: Cromer townspeople donated generously towards Ruby and Arthur Reed II, the station's brand new 47ft Tyne class lifeboat, and it was therefore fitting that so many should be there, joined by holidaymakers and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Upton Castle
The 1 steam trawler Upton Castle ran on to i the rocks off Cresswell about 3 A.M.
The vessel's signal for assistance was heard, and the Life-boat Martha was made ready for launching. The launch was only accomplished...
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Plymouth, Devon. At 12.10 on the afternoon of the 21st of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police had asked if the life-boat could take off a family of five who were stranded on Renney rocks off Heybrook...
Victoria
On the evening of the 3rd October, a heavy gale blowing from the east, and a very high sea on the bar, a vessel was seen running for this harbour.
The Teigrimouth life-boat was immediately despatched to her assistance; but...
Fishing Boats (2)
MAY 15TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
Several fishing boats were out, some crabbing and some fishing, and as at 10 in the morning three of the boats could not be seen from the coastguard’s look-out it was decided to search for them...
New Ways of Raising Money
An attractive girl dressed in a Nell Gwynn costume has been seen selling oranges on behalf of the Institution at a number of towns in the south and south-west of England where life-boats are stationed. She is Miss Sue Peters, and the oranges...
Category: Donations
Delila
. Aberdeen, and Newburgh, Aberdeenshire.
—Early on the morning of the 4th November, 1937, the steam trawler Delila, of Aberdeen, ran aground about a mile, south of the Belhelvie coastguard station. She was homeward bound...
Gadfly
Swanage, Dorset.—At 12.40 in the afternoon of the 4th of July, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a small sailing yacht was in difficulties in Dur- leston Bay, and the motor life-boat Thomas Markby, was launched in a strong south-west...
Fitz Clarence
During a dense fog on the 3rd March a boat came ashore at Walmerand reported thatalarge steamer was stranded on the Goodwin Sands.
The crew of the Life-boat Civil Service No. 4 was at once assembled and the boat launched at...