LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Duke Senior
WHITSTABLE, Sunday January 19, 1986: a 24ft fishing boat, Duke Senior, with a party of anglers on board ran aground outside the harbour in a strong westerly force 9 gale. She was later re-floated by the rising tide and at 1417 she was...
An Aeroplane (36)
DECEMBER 12TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.
A lady passenger on a tram asked the driver to report that she had seen an aeroplane crash in the sea, but the lifeboat found nothing. - Rewards, £13 13s. 6d..
Human Muscle and Motor Power
THE advantages of the Motor Life-boat over the Pulling and Sailing Life-boat are obvious in speed, in range oi action, in power to travel in the face of a gale, and, above all, in manoeuvring power at the critical moments when the Life-boat...
Category: Articles
A Trawler
Peterhead, Aberdeen.—16th January, 1939. A trawler had run ashore on the Scaurs of Cruden, but she was refloated and taken in tow for Aberdeen by another trawler. Unfortunately she had been damaged and on her way to Aberdeen she foundered...
Minuet
Skipper taken ill THE YACHT Minuet, crossing the Channel from France with a crew of four on board on Thursday August 23, 1979, was making heavy weather and sent out a distress call; she was about eight miles east by north of Dover. HM...
Hon Secretaries' Courses Under Way
WALES AND THE WEST COUNTRY S6t the ball rolling in June when around a dozen station honorary secretaries from those areas attended the first training course aimed specifically at their role within the RNLI.
Training officer...
Category: Articles
Camarthem October 19 1987:
CAMARTHEM, October 19, 1987: Crew members of Tenby's 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat crew found themselves afloat several miles from the sea when they were called in by police and coastguards to help with flood relief at Camarthen,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Triton
On the 19th of January, at 9 A.M., the No. 2 Life-boat, the Godsend, was launched to the assistance of the brig Triton, of Svelvig—bound from Memel to France with oak boards—which was in a dangerous position near the Scroby Sands, during a N...
Fishing Cobles
Seven of the fishing cobles belonging to Newbiggin were overtaken by tem- pestuous weather on the 8th January.
There had been a strong swell all the morning, with the wind in the N.N.E., and some of the other boats put back...
Notre Dame de la Mer
On the morning of the 19th of December, 1953, the Margate life-boat North Foreland. Civil Service No XI was launched in a rough sea to go to the help of the French trawler Notre Dame de la Mer. off Boulogne, which was being driven inshore...