LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rubber Dinghy
Penlee, Cornwall.—At ten o'clock on the morning of the 10th of March, 1957, the St. Just coastguard telephoned that a rubber dinghy had been seen south-west of Penzer Point. The life- boat IF. and S. was launched thirty minutes later in...
Ebenezer
CLOVELLY.—On the 3rd Sept., at 10 A.M., during a strong breeze at N., the smack Ebenezer, of Bideford, being at anchor in a dangerous position off a lee shore, hoisted a signal of distress, whereupon the Lifeboat Alexander and Matilda...
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RESCUE FROM ROCKS At 8.15 p.m. on 24th May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the local life-saving apparatus team was on its way to the Little Orme because two young men were stranded. At 8.30 the life-boat The Lilly...
Fifth National Lottery
ERNIE WISE, one of the RNLI's most loyal friends, visited Poole on Friday April 27 to draw the fifth RNLI national lottery in the presence of Mrs Georgina Keen, a member of the Fund Raising Committee and Cdr Ted Pritchard, appeals...
Category: Articles
Rose Crest
Courtmacsherry Harbour, Co. Cork - At 6.40 p.m. on 15th April, 1968, the Marine Rescue Co-ordination Centre at Haulbowline informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Rose Crest was in difficulties with engine trouble south of...
Northgate
COASTER AGROUND NEAR HARBOUR ENTRANCE Amble, Northumberland. At nine o'clock on the morning of the 6th February, 1963, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a coaster had run aground at the harbour entrance.
The...
After Two Bombs
The wreckage of the boathouse in April, 1941, and underneath it the wreckage of the life-boat John Pyemont, which had replaced the Henry Frederick Swan in October, 1939. The building behind the wreckage is the old watchhouse.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Jean Anderson
GILES' QUAY, DUNDALK.—The brigantine Jean Anderson, of Dundalk, bound from Ardrossan to Dundalk with coal was seen ashore on the east side of Dundalk Bar with a signal for assistance flying, at 8 A.M. on the 18th...
Skylark
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 11.20 in the morning of the 17th of January, 1950,the coastguard telephoned that the fishing boat Skylark, of Shoreham, working from Eastbourne, had not returned from early morning fishing.
As the...
Flanders
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 1.20 in the morning of the 18th of Saptember, 1948, the Bangor coastguard telephoned that a trawler had wirelessed that she had picked up two men, who had been adrift in a motor boat, and asked for the life-boat to...