LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mer Gespard
On the Goodwins RAMSGATE PIERHEAD lookout sighted red flares to the south east of the harbour at 2303 on Saturday October 29,1983. The sighting was immediately reported to Dover Coastguard, the honorary secretary of Ramsgate lifeboat station...
Shelmelier
Holyhead, Anglesey - At 12.29 a.m.
on i8th April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the m.v. Kilkenny had sighted red flares about 10 miles north-west of Skerries lighthouse. There was a gale from...
German Donation
The Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbruchiger—the German Life-boat Society—have sent the R.N.L.I. a donation of £147—half the proceeds from a concert they staged at which there was a brave showing of R.N.L.I. flags..
Category: Donations
An Aeroplane (94)
AUGUST 19TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. A German aeroplane had come down in the sea, and the men in it had managed to climb on board the near-by wreck of the steamer Harcola, but they were picked up by a naval vessel. - Rewards, £7...
Ex-Coxswain J. T. Upperton
The death has occurred of Ex-Coxswain James T. Upperton, of Shoreham, who was 78.
In 1941, as acting coxswain, Mr. Upperton was awarded the silver medal of the Institutions for rescuing 22 people from a minesweeper. Then,...
Category: Obituaries
A Tiger Moth Aircraft
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 5.32 on the evening of the 30th of March, 1958, the Formby coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Tiger Moth aircraft had crashed in the River Mersey, off Speke airfield, five hundred yards off shore....
Morning Rays, Amity and Copieux
MARCH 12TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
At 10.40 P.M. the coastguard reported a vessel burning flares one and a half miles N.W. by W., and the motor life-boat K.B.M. was launched at 11.30. A strong southerly wind was blowing,...
Sir Winston Churchill
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL illuminated so many aspects of our life with the majesty of his words that it is hardly surprising that some of the most stirring sentences ever spoken about a life-boat were uttered by him.
The...
Category: Articles
Alexandra
The ketch Alexandra, of Chester, left that port on 31st January bound for Millom with a cargo of coal and next day stranded on the East Hoyle Bank. For three days every effort was made to get the vessel off, and about thirty tons of cargo...
A Rubber Dinghy
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 5.20 on the afternoon of the 7th of May, 1958, the police told the honorary secretary that a rubber dinghy was drifting out to sea off Leasowe lighthouse with one man on board. At 5.35 the life-boat Edward and Mary...