LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Below Left - Minehead Guild
Below left - Minehead guild commissioned this display in conjunction with Minehead town council parks who arranged the plot on one of the main approaches into the town. The display also featured in the Britain in Bloom competition in which... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gluckauf
FEB. 9TH - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
The German steamer Gluckauf, of Rostock, had struck the submerged wreck of the Katina Bulgaris, which had sunk the day before, but her crew were saved by the Norwegian steamer Nayland. -...
Weymouth's Arun Lies Afloat
Weymouth's A/un lies afloat between two piles in front of the lifeboat house.
The access jetty is built over the remains of the old slipway and the station's Atlantic 75 is now in a purpose-built house downstream... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Tynemouth
TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND On the 8th December, 1940, the Tynemouth life-boat rescued the crew of twentytwo of the motor vessel Oslo Fjord, of Norway.
MR. EDWARD SELBY DAVIDSON, honorary secretary, was awarded the bronze...
Category: Medals
Cestrian Maid
Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 11.40 on the morning of the 5th of June, 1956, it was reported that the crew of two of the yacht Cestrian Maid, of Liverpool, were signalling for help off Gallows Point. The life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts,...
A Yacht
Crossed Bar RETURNING at 1910 on June 6, 1987 from a machinery exercise, in command of the Portrush 52ft Arun class lifeboat Robert Evans (Civil Service No. 39), Second Coxswain/Mechanic Derek Chambers succeeded in crossing the bar at the...
Watermillock, of Sunderland
Early on the morning of the 6th November, during a gale of wind from the N.N.W., accompanied by blinding showers, a vessel was observed in distress about a mile and a half from this place. The Par see life- boat promptly proceeded to the...
Little Aggie, of Berwick
On the 21st December, during a heavy gale from N.N.E., the schooner Little Aggie, of Ber- wick, with a cargo of slates, got on shore at Hauxley. The life-boat stationed there was immediately transported to the scene of the wreck, and with...
Kelton
DUNGENESS.—In response to signals of distress, the No. 1 Life-boat R. A. 0. B.
was launched at 2.40 A.M. on the 24th February, and found the four-masted barque Kelton, of Glasgow, stranded on the Newcome Sands. At the...
Re-Opening of Shoreham Station
THE Station at Shoreham, Sussex, which was established in 1865, was closed in 1924, owing to the silting up of the harbour. Up to that date its Life-boats had rescued forty lives.
Since 1924 there has been a great im-...
Category: Articles