LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Catches a Mermaid!
Exmouth lifeboat station caught the attention of a Westcountry Television cameraman when they landed a mermaid on lifeboat station open day.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
St. Helen, Smack Maggie,Schooners Eva, Unionist, Jane Shearer, etc
THURSO, N.B.—On the 16th September a very severe W. gale was experienced here. About nineteen sailing vessels and two steamers were lying in Scrabster Eoadstead at the time. Some of them had anchored far out beyond the proper anchorage-...
Our John
St. Ives, Cornwall. At ten o'clock on the night of the 28th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the skiff Our John, with one man on board, had been reported drifting westward on the ebb...
Past and Present
100 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, May 1889 issue THE LIFE-BOAT HOUSE The boats of the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under...
Category: Articles
Pioneer
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—During bad weather on the morning of the 2nd January, 1939, it was reported that one of the local motor fishing cobles was at sea. A N.E. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea and squalls of sleet. The motor...
Providence and Children’s Friend
MCH. 15TH. - AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND.
The motor life-boat Frederick andEmma, which was placed at Amble when that life-boat station was reopened at the beginning of 1939, received her first service call at 8.30 A.M. She put...
Inverness-Shire
The four-masted barque Inverness-shire, when coming up channel on the 19th February, in a strong gale and very heavy sea, hoisted signals for assistance when off Totland Bay.
The Life-boat Robert Fleming was promptly...
Dinghies and a Yacht
Crowded hour THE OUTBOARD ENGINE of an inflatable dinghy broke down just as she was clearing Shoreham Harbour eastern breakwater on the afternoon of Sunday, August 1. A message came from HM Coastguard at 1521, saying that the dinghy, with...
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 6.10 on the evening of the 15th of August, 1959, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from the police that a man was drifting out to sea off Waterwynch Bay. At 6.18 the life-boat Henry Comber...
Sea Breeze
On the evening of the 19th July the Coxswain was told by boatmen that a motor boat was in difficulties near the Long Nose Buoy, and was drifting out to sea on the ebb tide. A light easterly breeze was blow- ing and the sea was smooth. The...