LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tlemcen, the French Tug Champion and Bhutan
MAY 24TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 4.45 A.M. a message was received from the Deal coastguard that a steamer, with a number of women and children on board, had been bombed by enemy aircraft and was drifting in the South Downs. A light south-west...
Royal National Lifeboat Institution Annual Presentation
blLVhK MkUALb FOR GALLENTRY Coxswain Peter Bisson, St Peter Port - 29 August 1992 Coxswain Bisson and his crew braved force 9 winds and 15-20ft seas to snatch six yachtsmen to safety from the Sena Sioria. During the rescue the yacht's...
Category: Awards
List of Awardees
Since ihc last Annual Presentalion of Awards, the Committee of Management has awarded 3 Life Governorships. 2 Records of Thanks. 5 Bar In Gold Badges and 76 Gold Badges. Awtinli't'. not inteniiini the APA ttiv shown with tin mfrmi...
Category: Awards
Annie
About 2 p M., on the 8th February, the pilot coble Annie, of Redcar, which had gone out in the morning to a steamer, but had failed to reach her on account of the strong N.W. gale and heavy sea, was seen off Redcar, beyond the breakers, with...
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
THIS August, for the seventh year running, the fishwives of Cullercoats made a collection for the Life-boat Service when the quarterly launch and road exercise of the Cullercoats Life-boat took place.
By collecting this...
Category: Articles
Redwing
At about 7.30 P.M.
on the 2nd September the fishing boat Redwing, of Poole, was seen to be in difficulties three miles E.N.E. from Peveril Point in a moderate S.S.W. gale with a moderately heavy sea. The Motor Life-boat...
Magdala
The steamer Mag- dala, of Glasgow, whilst bound from New York to Rotterdam with a cargo of grain, stranded on the Goodwin Sands on the 22nd October. The steamer was a Belgian relief ship. She was seen to strike the sands and the Life-boat...
The Polar Star
MONTROSE.—At about 9.30 A.M. on 27th January a smack was seen turning towards the river, and when a little way from Scurdyness Lighthouse she missed stays and drifted on to the Annat Bank.
The No. 1 Life-boat Robert...
The South Sand Head Lightvessel
WALMER.—On the 6th Feb., 1897, in response to guns and rockets, the reserve Life-boat temporarily placed on this station was launched at about 3.45 A.M., proceeded to the South Sand Head lightvessel, and ascertained that she had been run...
Ben Hiant
Very early on the 19th October the auxiliary yacht Ben Hiant, of Stornoway, pleasure cruising with four persons on board, was sheltering in Campbeltown Loch. A whole N.W. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The weather was thick and...