LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fishing Boat
Selsey, Sussex.—The Institution's thanks on vellum and a special award of £2 were awarded to Life-boatman W. Arnell for going overboard from the life-boat on the 17th of April to the rescue of one of two men of a capsized fishing...
H.M. Trawler Flotta
OCTOBER 29TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 5.30 A.M. the coast-guard reported signals of distress, and a few minutes later said that a vessel was ashore one mile north of Rattray Head. At 6.35 A.M. the Peterhead motor...
A Steamer (3)
JANUARY 26TH. - TOBERMORY, ARGYLLSHIRE. A steamer had been reported ashore on Tiree, but the wind was at hurricane force and compelled the life-boat to heave to, and later she returned to Tobermory, as the weather was getting worse. The life...
None (5)
Galway Bay - At 9.15 p.m. on loth July, 1966, the life-boat was requested to convey a seriously ill man to hospital on the mainland. At 10 o'clock the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched in a westerly breeze and smooth sea. It...
Snafelle
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. — At 8.35 on the night of the 30th of September, 1951, the coastguard reported that a forty-feet yacht was ashore about a mile off Scrapsgate, Isle of Sheppey, and at 8.45 the life-boat, Greater London, Civil Service...
White Wave
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 12.30 in the afternoon of the 10th of August, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a motor boat was in distress and in danger of •drifting ashore three-quarters of a mile west-south-west of Seaford and a half- mile off...
A Boat
GORLESTON. — In spite of the very stormy condition of the weather on the 7fch October, the wind blowing a strong gale from the S.W., and the sea being very heavy, a zaaa went out in a small boat from the shore, with the intention of boarding...
Ivy
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—At half past four in the afternoon on the 20th of February, 1950, pilots reported that distress flares had been seen close to The Hook, Co. Wexford. Fifteen minutes later the life-boat Annie Blanche...
Flying Colours:
Flying colours: the annual service for seafarers at St Paul's Cathedral in October was attended by the RNLI's President, The Duke of Kent. To represent the Institution's lifeboat crews, seven men from Kent and Essex stations were... - View image in PDF
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Cineraria
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 10.20 on the night of the 19th of October, 1954, a woman at Sheshader rang up to say that a fishing boat had run ashore off Sheshader. At 10.45 the life- boat The James and Margaret Boyd, put out. The sea was...