LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SEAHAM, DURHAM.—Towards midnight on the 31st Deo., 1898, signals of distress at sea were observed off this place, and when the New Year broke, the Life-boat SJcynner was on her way to render help to the vessel which had displayed them. The...

Workington, Cumberland. At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 17th of October, 1960, it was learnt that the trawler Snowdrop of Whitehaven had broken down about four miles north-west of Workington. There was a moderate south-south-westerly wind...

AT 8.28 on the evening of 16th October, 1967, the coastguard told the acting honorary secretary of the Clacton-on-Sea life-boat station, Mr. C. A. Perry, that a red flare had been sighted at the entrance to the River Blackwater. The maroons...

HOLY ISLAND.—The No. 1 Life-boat Grace Darling was launched at about 11 A.M. on the 22ad February, the Kev.W. W. F. Keeling, Vicar of Holy Island, and Honorary Secretary of the Institution's branch, taking charge of the boat in the...

1. Poole's shore facilities are on the quayside, convenient to both the Atlantic boathouse and the Brede moored alongside it.

2. The yellow lifting cradle can clearly be seen during construction of the boathouse. It... - View image in PDF

ON 29th September, 1925, the trawler Rig, of Ramsgate, was wrecked off Tolpedn, Cornwall, in a thick fog, when returning from a fishing voyage at Swansea. She had nine men on board.

Seven of the nine were rescued from the...

Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 2.40 on the afternoon of the 29th of April, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the motor fishing vessel Hopeful, of Thurso, had broken down twenty-five miles south of Wick. At three o'clock the life-boat...

Left to right: The Viscount Grey of Fallodou. K.G.. the Dulce of Northumberland, the Duchess of Northumberland, the Bishop of Newcastle, Colonel the Hon. Harold Robson. the Chairman of the Branch, and the Rev. F.... - View image in PDF