LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (68)
AUGUST 27TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At about 4.30 P.M. the R.A.F., Chatham, reported an aircraft down in the sea seventeen miles north of Sheringham. A moderate N.N.E. wind was blowing, with a moderatesea. The No. 1 motor...
Fuchsia
On the 28th of the same month, the schooner Fuchsia, of Goole, from. Castlehill to South Shields, being in danger on a lee shore, with an E.N.E. gale blowing, the Life-boat proceeded off to her against a heavy sea, and succeeded in rescuing...
Safe Return, Mary Frances, Glance and Green Flag
ARKLOW, IRELAND.—Several fishing boats having been driven from their moorings on the morning of the 16th October, the Out Pensioner Life-boat was launched at 9 o'clock, and saved four large boats, the Safe Return, Mary Frances, Glance,...
Honfleur
The same valuable life-boat afterwards went to the assistance of the barque Honfleur, of Sandiford, Norway, which was likewise stranded on the Cross Sand, and succeeded in taking that vessel and her crew of 13 men to a safe anchorage off...
John, of Hartlepool
The Thomas Wilson life-boat also went out three times to the brig John, of Hartlepool, which had gone ashore at Cape Kerr Point; and on the last occasion was tile means of rescuing the master, who had remained on board helpless after his...
Mr. Courtenay H. Edmonds
Mr. Courtenay H. EdmondsWith the death of Mr. Courtenay H.
Edmonds, of Exeter, at the end of 1923, the Institution lost the oldest of its Hon- orary Secretaries. Mr. Edmonds became Honorary Secretary to the Exeter Branch...
Category: Obituaries
Coxswain George Taylor, of Hauxley, Northumberland
George Taylor, who, since 1909, had been Coxswain of the Life-boat at Hauxley, Northumberland, was drowned while fishing on llth November of last year. During his Coxswainship the Hauxley Life-boat rescued 62 lives, and he was specially...
Category: Obituaries
Receiving and Transmitting Sets
The Marconi R/T installation as used in life-boats. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Annual Life-Boat Religious Service
Held in the grounds of Peel Castle, Isle of Man. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Trimaran
HOW A TRIMARAN WAS SAVED At 3.14 on the afternoon of the 21st July, 1962; the Lowestoft, Suffolk, lifeboat was launched to the help of a trimaran. An eye-witness account of this service appears on page 349..