LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Alex Thomson And Dee Caffari (pictured)
Round-the-world sailors Alex Thomson and Dee Caffari (pictured) were just two of the 700 people who signed up as RNLI members at the London Boat Show in January.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Baptism By Fire And Water
A BAptism By fiRe ANd WAteR At the northernmost tip of mainland Scotland, the waters of the Atlantic Ocean siphon into the North Sea and back again, twice a day, through a churning channel less than 7 miles wide. One new recruit will always...
Category: Articles
A Fishing Boat and a Dinghy
MARCH 27TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. A vessel coming in reported that she had found a small fishing boat and a dinghy with no one on board, and the life-boat made a wide search for her crew, but found nothing.- Rewards, £4 5s..
The S.S. Foam Queen and another Boat
NOVEMBER 3RD. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
At eight in the morning the life-boat station received a message from the Fairlight coastguard that a steamer was sinking one mile south of Hastings. A moderate south-byeast wind was...
H.M. Tug Swarthy and H.M.S. Saltburn
OCTOBER 25TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT, AND SELSEY, SUSSEX. During a south-westerly gale, with very rough seas, the naval authorities at Portsmouth asked the Bembridge life-boat to go to the help of two ships in distress off Horse Sands...
H.M. Tug Swarthy and H.M.S. Saltburn (1)
OCTOBER 25TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT, AND SELSEY, SUSSEX. During a south-westerly gale, with very rough seas, the naval authorities at Portsmouth asked the Bembridge life-boat to go to the help of two ships in distress off Horse Sands...
Gallant Services at Newhaven and Runswick
Three Bronze Medals Awarded.
THERE were heavy seas round the coast whole gale was blowing at the time, and at the end of November, and on the 26th the Motor Life-boat and two tugs put out and 27th of that month ten...
Category: Services
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SOUTHWOLD.—We have inadvertently omitted to notice in its proper order a new life-boat, which was placed at Southwold, in Suffolk, in the autumn of 1852.
This boat was built by BEECHING and SONS, of Great Yarmouth, on the...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ITS the December Number of this Journa it was stated that several additional Life boat Stations had been formed, and new boats built to replace old ones.
In addition to those previously enume- rated, we have the...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.—A new life-boat has been recently stationed at Moelfre, a fishing village, on the north-eastern coast of the island of Anglesey, in lieu of the former lifeboat stationed there, which has been removed to replace a worn-out...
Category: Articles