LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tilda
Dungeness, Kent.—At 12.32 on the early morning of the 27th of November, 1950, the Lade coastguard telephoned that a vessel was aground half a mile west of Jury's Gap. At 12.42 the life- boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched in a...
Thomas
PENMON, ANGLESEY.—A schooner having been seen to run aground on the Dutchman's Bank during a N.W. wind and rough weather on the 20th August, the crew of the Life-boat were summoned, and the Life-boat, placed here temporarily while the...
Mahala
Appledore, Devon. — At 9.20 on the evening of the 19th of September, 1954, a doctor told the coxswain that a woman and her daughter were in diffi- culties in the local motor boat Mahala of Crow Rocks and were burning...
Amor, of Elsfletch
The Bradford life-boat also rescued the crew of 8 men of the brigantine Amor, of Elsfleth, which had stranded on the north- west spit of the Goodwin Sands .....
Submerged Tractors
This photograph shows the extent to which the Tractors for launching Life-boats have been made immune from water. The water can be plainly seen pouring through the engine of the Tractor In front.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Celebrating life and remembering our friends
Remembering Craig Steadman
Over the past year, volunteers and supporters at Holyhead and Barmouth Lifeboat Stations have been working tirelessly to fund a new lifeboat in memory of Craig Steadman. Craig, a Holyhead crew...
Category: Obituaries
Whitwell
SOUTHEND-ON-SEA., ESSEX.—On the 12th January, while a strong gale was blowing from W. to W. by S., accompanied by a rough sea, notice was received from the pier-head that a vessel was stranded on Shoebury Sands about five miles...
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Couple rescued from foot of cliffs Redcar lifeboat helmsman Peter Hodge has been awarded a Bronze Medal for the outstanding rescue of two walkers and a dog cut off by the tide on 19 January. The couple and dog were trapped atthe foot of high...
Telegraph
RAMSGATE.—Signal guns having been fired by the light-vessels, the Life-boat Bradford in tow of the steam-tug Aid, left the harbour at 6.45 A.M. on the 18th March, and found the barquentine Telegraph, of Frederikshald, bound from Ghristiania...
Benimora
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At ten o'clock on the night of the 7th of September, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was overdue on passage from Milford Haven to Fishguard and that a woman had reported...