LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter
FOLLOWING the birth of a son to Their Royal Highnesses The Prince and Princess of Wales a letter of congratulations and good wishes was sent to Buckingham Palace by Rear Admiral W. J.
Graham, the director, on behalf of...
Category: Articles
Four Yachtsmen Rescued at Margate
SHORTLY after midnight on the 2nd of September, 1951, the coastguard at Margate called up the life-boat station to say that he could see distress signals being flashed by a torch from a small yacht just outside the harbour.
Category: Services
Huniber lifeboat crew at the retirement party in September for Coxswain Superintendent Robertson Buchan
Huniber lifeboat crew at the retirement party in September for Coxswain Superintendent Robertson Buchan (centre left) with the new coxswain, Mr Neil Morris, of Withernsea (right). In picture (right) Mr Buchan is examining the radar scanner... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Motor Drifter Dol-Fyn
APRIL 23RD. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
At about 12.50 P.M. the coastguard reported that a vessel about three miles south of Portland Bill was showing distress signals, and the motor life-boat William and Clara Ryland was launched...
A Raffle Prize With a Difference: Mv Oahu
A raffle prize with a difference: MV Oahu, or at least the master of this ship, Captain Dennis Smith, decided, as part of his ship's Christmas and New Year celebrations at sea, to raffle his job for the day. The raffle raised £175... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Henry Blogg GC BEM of Cromer— from the Painting By T C Dugdale ARA Which Hangs In the RNLI Headquarters In London
Coxswain Henry Blogg, G.C., B.E.M., of Cromer— from the painting by T. C. Dugdale, A.R.A., which hangs in the R.N.L.I. headquarters in London..
Category: Drawings
The Naval Reserve, As It Ought to Be, and As It Is
" WHAT is the Naval Reserve?" This is a question which was very frequently asked during the early part of the month of May of the present year; and, certainly, until the daily papers undertook the task of en- lightenment, the...
Category: Articles
The Wreck Register and Chart of 1859
IN accordance with our annual custom, we are called on to chronicle the fearful and, in the present instance, unprecedented effects, both on life and property, of the terrific storms of the preceding twelve months in the seas and on the...
Category: Articles
Barnhill
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT EASTBOURNE MARCH 20TH. - EASTBOURNE, HASTINGS, AND NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. During the night the London steamer Barnhill, of 5,430 tons, was in the English Channel on her way from Nova Scotia to London.Two of the...
An Aeroplane (25)
JUNE 4TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT, AND SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 1.15 A.M. a message was received at Bembridge from the Foreland coastguard, that an aeroplane had come down in the sea south-west of the coastguard hut at Hayling Island. A...