LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
March
MARCH Launches 90. Lives rescued 132.
MARCH 2ND. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON. At 4.30 A.M. information was received from the King’s Harbour Master that signals of distress were being shewn in Jennycliffe Bay, and the motor life-boat...
Category: Services
An Attacker Aeroplane
Cromer, Norfolk.—About three o'clock in the afternoon of the 6th of March, 1952, the police reported an aeroplane in difficulties and at 3.25 the coastguard telephoned a message from the R.A.F. No. 19 Group that the aeroplane was an...
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Category: Advertisement
Hidden Among a Band of Ace Fund Raisers Are Shoreham Lifeboat's Motor Mechanic Jack Silverson and Ian Wallington
Hidden among a band of ace fund raisers are Shoreham lifeboat's motor mechanic. Jack Silverson, and Ian Wallington, RO(SE). The children, class 1 (aged 10 and II) of Shoreham Beach First School, have just handed over a cheque for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (12)
APRIL 1 5TH. - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN.
An aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but only oil and wreckage were found.
Two bodies had already been picked up by a patrol vessel. - Rewards, £4 7s....
A Small Motor Launch
JUNE 1 6TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.
A small motor launch had been seen burning flares off Ballantrae, but the life-boat was recalled before reaching her.
- Rewards, £3 17s. 6d..
The Rnli Looks at the Year's Work and the Future: 97000 Lives Saved Since 1824
THE ANNUAL MEETING of the RNLI this year was split into morning and afternoon sessions at the Royal Festival Hall, London, the first being for the governors and the second for the presentation of medals for gallantry and awards to voluntary...
Category: Meetings
August
AUGUST Launches 41. Lives rescued 92.
AUGUST 1ST. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At about 1. 8 A.M. the Royal Naval shore signal station reported that a large steamer had run aground near the Chequer Shoal Buoy. The night was...
Category: Services
Fishing Boats (3)
GOURDON, KINCARDINESHIRE.—The Lifeboat Young George Irlam was launched at 1 P.M. on the 15th February, and remained afloat until the fishing-boats had safely returned to the harbour, whilst a fresh breeze was blowing from the E., and a heavy...
Unition
ALNMOUTH.—The John Atkinson Lifeboat rescued, on the 24th December, 3 of the crew of the brig Unition, of Guernsey, which vessel had stranded on the Boulmer Rocks. Of the remainder of the shipwrecked men, 1 was lost, and the others, 4 in...