LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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MAY 22ND. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
An aeroplane was reported to have crashed into the sea off Trevose Head, but actually it had only flown low in thick weather.- Rewards, £3 19s..
Dynamo
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 3.54 in the afternoon, on the 10th of December, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that North Foreland Radio reported the steamer Dynamo, of Hull, aground two miles south-south-west of Ramsgate. At 4.8 the life-boat...
Couthie
SUDDEN DISAPPEARANCE At 10.55 a.m. on i3th August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht which seemed to be making for Broadstairs had disappeared suddenly, presumably capsized. There was a moderate sea with a...
Nancy
The local motor fishing boat Nancy II, carrying a crew of three, put to sea on the 4th January. She did not return when expected, and the motor life-boat Elliot Gakr was launched at 4.33 P.M.
to look for her. A strong north...
Pallas
NORTH SUNDEHLAND.— At 2 P.M. on the 1st January 1901 the Life-boat Thomas Bewick was launched and brought ashore the Crew of four men of the ketch Pallas, of Jersey, which had stranded on the Longstone rock, where she became a total...
Lauton
Information having been received at this station about 9 A.M.
on the 30th November, at which time it was blowing a gale from the N.E., ac- companied by snow squalls, that a vessel had been wrecked on the Fidra Island, 3...
Ashore Near Plymouth
The S.S. " Umberleigh," of London, ashore at Bovisand Bay on 20th September last. The Plymouth Motor Life-boat, which stood by in a whole gale and landed eighteen of the crew, can be seen on the left of the steamer.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Rowing Boat
LIFE-BOAT HIT BOTTOM Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 11.3 a.m.
on iyth January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a rowing boat, 600 yards off the beach, was in apparent difficulty at Holland...
1991 Fa B 3 Prototype (Right)
It may be hard to believe, but the same self-righting principle applies to these two lifeboats, separated by more than 125 years of development. The sails and oars may have given way to turbocharged diesels, but the raised fore-and-aft boxes... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Nelly
Shortly after the Mark Lane Life-boat had brought the crew of the schooner Nancy ashore, the watchman reported that the St.
Nicholas Light vessel was firing distress signals, and about the same time a vessel was observed...