LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Jessie and Cheshire Witch
On the 11th January, news was received at this station that the services of the China life-boat were urgently needed in Torbay, as many vessels were in great danger of being wrecked during a strong gale of wind from the N.E. The China...
Fishing Boats (6)
DECEMBER 2ND. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At 11A.M. the crew assembled for an exercise, but as a strong N.N.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea, and some fishing boats were out the launch was delayed and the crew stood by. Incoming trawlers...
Sagacity
OCTOBER 28TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. As the motor life-boat City of Bradford II was returning to her station at about 2.55 P.M. after an unsuccessful search for an aeroplane she heard two loud explosions, and on reaching Spurn Point she...
The child, the engineer and the Wizzer
In October 1973, airmen and their families in the then West Germany pledged to raise funds for a B class lifeboat
Young Allen Stevens was a primary school student at RAF Wildenrath, where his...
Category: Articles
Every Christmas Artist John Lee a Great Supporter of Weymouth Lifeboat Auctions One of His Paintings to Raise Funds For
Every Christmas artist John Lee, a great supporter of Weymouth lifeboat, auctions one of his paintings to raise funds for the RNLI; in the past few years £680 has been raised in this way. Last Christmas an oil painting ofWeymouth's... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Alcinous
DUNGENESS, KENT.—On the 6th April the Coastguard watchman informed the coxswain of the Life-boat B.A.O.E. that a large steamer had stranded on the Newcome Sand. He at once summoned the crew and at 6.15 p.m. the boat was launched. A strong...
Leopold, of Riga
About 2 j P.M. on the 18th October, at which time i itt was blowing a heavy gale from E.S.E., - the schooner Leopold, of Eiga, was ob- ; served on the Tay Banks at the mouth of | that river. The Life-boat Mary Hartley, stationed at...
Shamrock
DUNGARVAN, Co. WATERFORD. On the 12th January, at 5.30 P.M., the fishing lugger Shamrock, of Peel, arrived at Ballinacourty and anchored about a hundred yards from the fishery pier. At about 8.30 one of her anchors parted and the vessel...
General Index
ANNUAL REPORT . . . . 337 r e~P° Balance Sheet 352 T 'f w? Box Collections . - - *?& -kiie-po Branch Contributions Committee ol Managem General Contributions Income and Expenditui Legacies and Legacy Fo Life-Belt, Description o...
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A Rubber Dinghy
Cromer, Norfolk.—During the morn- ing of the 2nd of September, 1948, the engines of the No. 1 life-boat Henry Blogg were being tested as she lay at moorings. At half past eleven the coxswain noticed a small boy being carried out to sea in a...