LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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OCT. 25TH. - DOVER, KENT. The motor life-boat Sir William Hillary was launched at 4.50 P.M. at the request of the chief of staff of H.M. Naval Base at Dover. A strong E.N.E. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. As the service was of a...
Shoreham Harbour
SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX On the 16th November, 1941, the Shoreham Harbour life-boat rescued the crew of twenty-one of H.M. Minesweeper President Briand, and also the life-boat coxswain, who was on board as pilot.
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Category: Medals
An Aeroplane (78)
AUGUST 11TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. The R.A.F.
reported a Blenheim aircraft down in the sea three miles off the coast between Yarmouth and Lowestoft, but the life-boats found...
Austin Motor Company's Gift.
The Austin Motor Company has generously offered to give the Institution one shilling for each horse power of every engine which it makes for a ship's life-boat. The first cheque for £240, for all engines which It had delivered up to...
Category: Articles
INJURED TEEN REACHES SAFETY
TENBY | 9 APRIL
Tenby all-weather lifeboat crew raced to the aid of a 14-year-old girl, who had fallen on rocks at Barafundle Beach. Suffering suspected back and neck injuries, including a broken...
Category: Articles
High Seas...
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
Abersoch - West Division Picturesque Abersoch, on the tip of the Lleyn Peninsula in North Wales, boasts two sandy beaches and is a popular area for powerboat and yachting...
Category: Articles
Hoppet
SEATON CAREW,—On the morning of the 5fch December the brigantine Hoppet, of Helsingborg, Sweden, bound from Moss to Seaham with a cargo of pit props, was observed making for the land, during & terrific gale of wind from the E., with snow...
Ellwood
On the 7th November, the schooner Ell-wood, of Dublin, bound from Wicklow to Gaston with a cargo of timber, also got into difficulties when in the outer roads Holyhead Bay. In response to her signals the Duke of Northumberland put off and...
Kestrel
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 1.30 P.M.
on the 2nd October, 1938, a small boat near the edge of the Burbo Bank in the Rock Channel was seen to be flying a distress signal. A fresh, squally west breeze was blowing, with a...
A Steamer (2)
24th November. A steamer stranded on the Goodwin Sands, "but came off with the rising tide.—Rewards, £30 16s, 6d..