LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dalton and Waterloo Branch
Waterloo station, of a sort. Dalton and Waterloo branch, newly formed, took advantage of the fact that one of their members. Mr M.
Hollyhead, is secretarv of the Huddersfie/d Society of Model Engineers. Last summer, in the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wisp
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. •— On Sunday the 10th September, 1939, the coastguard reported that the sailing yacht Wisp, of Shoreham, had capsized about one and a half miles to the south-ward of the harbour entrance. A fresh westerly wind was...
Elizabeth Brooks
HOWTH, DUBLIN BAY,—The Life-boat Clara Baker was launched on the evening of the 6th August, and proceeded to the assistance of the brigantine Elizabeth Brooks, of Larne, which was ashore, with strong breeze blowing from S.E., on the Baldoyle...
36 Years After
The Institution has just received two legacies of £200 each, one for its general funds the other for its Selsey station, left it in gratitude by a Birmingham woman. In August 1908 she was on board the steamer "Queen" of...
Category: Articles
Margrethe Bakke
Dover, and Dungeness, Kent.—At 10.58 on the morning of the 22nd of Feb- ruary, 1954, the S. ndgate coastguard rang up the Dover life-boat station to say the motor vessel Margrethe Bakke, of Haugesund, Norway, had collided with a French ship...
Margrethe Bakke (1)
Dover, and Dungeness, Kent.—At 10.58 on the morning of the 22nd of Feb- ruary, 1954, the S. ndgate coastguard rang up the Dover life-boat station to say the motor vessel Margrethe Bakke, of Haugesund, Norway, had collided with a French ship...
A Halifax Bombing Aeroplane
AUGUST 8TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. A Halifax bombing aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but no survivors were found by the life-boat. Five of the crew of eight, four dead and one alive, were picked up by motor launches. - Rewards, £14 4s. 6d....
A Dinghy (3)
SAILING DINGHY FOUND AFTER SEARCH Girvan, Ayrshire. At 6.30 on the evening of the 28th April, 1962, a member of the Girvan yacht club informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy with two young men on board was overdue from a...
Star Wars and lifeboats
The producers of legendary movie franchise Star Wars have shown their support of lifesavers- not lightsabers- by making a sizeable donation to Co Kerry's Valentia Lifeboat Station.
While...
Category: Articles
Avail
Arbroath, Angus - At 10.56 p.m.
on 6th February, 1967, red flares werereported to have been seen about five miles south of Arbroath. The life-boat The Duke of Montrose was launched at 11.6 in a calm sea. It was an hour...