LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1871
THE Wreck Register for 1871 was issued by the Board of Trade on Oct. 14, and is, as usual, a very complete and ex-haustive document. It is supplemented, in the usual way, by most interesting charts, which have greatly helped us to analyze...
Category: Annual Reports
An Aeroplane (166)
NOVEMBER 11TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
At 2.13 P .M. information was received through the coastguard that two airmen had baled out from their aeroplane two miles S.E. of Orfordness. A moderate W.S.W. breeze was blowing, with...
Restoration of the Apparently Drowned
WE have much pleasure in publishing the following letter from Dr. PAGET-BLAKE, of Torquay, which shows the importance of retaining in the new Directions of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION a portion of Dr. MARSHALL HALL'S...
Category: Correspondence
The Royal Bank of Scotland
The crew can do their job because people like you use a Lifeboats MasterCard.
To save lives at sea our brave crews have to be well-trained and well-equipped.
This is why we need you, with a Lifeboats...
Category: Advertisement
An Estonian Steamer and King Egbert
DEC. 12TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 12.20 P.M.
a message was received from the coastguard that an Estonian steamer in the roadstead had picked up a shipwrecked crew and had asked that the life-boat should...
The Angling Vessel Badger
Pushed to the limit Two inshore lifeboats were tested to their limits on 9 March 2002, when an angling vessel with a crew of three was in difficulty 1.5 miles from Southend-on-Sea. The weather was fair and dry.
but there...
An Aeroplane (8)
JANUARY 9TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea off Dunwich, but the lifeboat was recalled as a Southwold motor boat had gone to the rescue. - Rewards, £20 4s. 6d..
A Rescue Off the Minquiers Reef
AT 3.10 early on the morning of the 15th of December, 1953, the harbour radio station reported that the motor vessel Brockley Combe, of Bristol, had wirelessed that she had struck the Minquiers Reef and needed help immediately. The Brockley...
Category: Services
Michel Swenden and Adrian Letzer
Walton and Frinton, Essex, and Clac- ton-on-Sea, Essex. — At 1.12 on the afternoon of the 20th of August, 1952, the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard reported that a message had been received from the North Foreland radio station that the motor...
Award for Rescue to Ten-Year-Old Boy
ABOUT 2.30 on the afternoon of the 16th of August, 1955, two boys, aged eight and eleven, who were in difficulties when swimming, began to shout for help.
They were then about 200 yards north- north-east of the Appledore...
Category: Awards