LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cymbeline
On the following morning a schooner was seen stranded close to the spot where the Energy had sunk. The Life-boat Beauchamp was launched at 5 o'clock and on reaching the vessel—which proved to be the schooner Cymbeline, of London— the...
Seaham Station Closes
At about 1500 on Saturday February 24, the 37ft Oakley lifeboat The Will and Fanny Kirby launched down the slip for the last time, circled the harbour and headed out to sea escorted by Sunderland and Hartlepool lifeboats and with the added...
Category: Articles
Hilda
Sunderland, Co. Durham.—At about P.M. on the 4th April, 1938, a pilot reported that a boat was in distress off Sunderland. She was the motor fishing boat Lilian, of North Shields, with a crew of two, in difficulties owing to the fouling of...
Harvester
Wells, Norfolk.—At 3.30 on the after- noon of the 22nd of March, 1956, the life-boat second coxswain received a report that the local motor fishing boat Harvester was overdue with a crew of two. At four o'clock the life- boat Cecil Paine...
Emily Raymond
At 10.30 A.M. on the 14th November, the brigantine Emily Raymond, of St. John's, N.B., then aground on the North Bar, Wexford Harbour, exhibited signals of distress. A gale was blowing from the N.W. at the time, with a very bad sea on....
Front Cover
Celebrating 175 years of the RNLI. Today's Tyne class contrasts with a nine-knot Oakley and a pulling lifeboat from the early years of the 20th century, while one of the early D class lifeboats gives a hint of things to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Top Award For Polzeath Five
Sunny days at the beach may seem like a distant memory, but the bravery and skill of five RN Ll lifeguards last Summer has recently been recognised with the Alison Saunders Lifeguarding Award- one of our top...
Category: Articles
Pamir (2)
Margate, Kent, Walton and Frinton, Essex, and Ramsgate, Kent.—At 1.33 in the morning of the 18th of January, 1952, the Margate coastguard telephon- ed the Margate life-boat station that the North Foreland Radio Station had reported a message...
A Wellington Aeroplane (1)
SEARCHING FOR AIRMEN Margate, and Ramsgate, Kent. — Shortly after 7.30 on the night of the 20th of November, 1947, the R.A.F. at Manston reported to the coastguard that a Wellington aeroplane was down in the sea north-east of...
Snapper
Poole and Bournemouth, Dorset.—At about noon on the 22nd January, 1939, information was received through the coastguard that the motor launch Snapper, which was bound from Hamworthy to Southampton, was in diffi-culties off Boscombe Pier. A S...