LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Margate Life-Boat Saves a French Trawler
AT 3.50 early on the morning of the 19th of December, 1953, the coast- guard rang up to say that the police had reported that the trawler Notre Dame de la Mer, of Boulogne, had run on to the rocks on Foreness Point about one and a half miles...
Category: Services
A British Spitfire Aeroplane and a German Heinkel
APRIL 3RD. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM, AND WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. A British Spitfire fighter aeroplane and a German Heinkel bomber had come down in the sea thirty miles east of Hartlepool, but the five German airmen and the British pilot were rescued...
Yacht We're Here
The cutter-yacht We're Here, of Burnham-ou-Crouch, was in grave peril of being lost on the Castle Rocks, Hastings, in the early morning of the 19th August. The yacht, with the owner, his wife, man, and two dogs on board, left Folkestone...
A Sailing Dinghies and Segel
DINGHIES IN TROUBLE At 11.50 a.m. on 7th June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that three sailing dinghies had capsized seaward of the harbour and, with about 20 dinghies in the area, the safety boat escorting them would be...
All In a Day's Work
All in a day's work Following a 20 hour search at sea for a missing Polperro fisherman on Sunday, 8 January 2000, some of the Fowey lifeboat crew headed straight off to London for the unveiling of a portrait of themselves and their... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Feature Zetland Lifeboat - 200 Years
The Zetland is the oldest surviving lifeboat in the world. She first saw action in 1802 and continued to save lives at Redcar until 1880. Local historian Dave Phillipson, a crew member from 1961-1986, looks at the history of a remarkable...
Category: Articles
The Wreck of Two Welsh Trawlers. Six Awards for Gallant Service
IN the early morning of 14th February, with a heavy sea running, a Welsh steam-trawler, the Tenby Castle, went ashore on the rocks in Clifden Bay, Con- nemara, on the west of Ireland, a coast where there are many rocky islands, the great...
Category: Awards
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Category: Advertisement
North Shields Sailors' Homes. Opening of the Building
OPENING OF THE BUILDING.
WE extract from the local papers some ac- count of the interesting ceremony of opening the North Shields Sailors' Home on the 21st October last by his Grace the Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G.,...
Category: Articles
A Photograph Taken from the Cockpit of the Whirlwind Helicopter As It Approached to Land at the Detachment at R.A.F. Chivenor, North Devon. Other Detachments of 22 Squadron Are Located at V
A photograph taken from the cockpit of the Whirlwind helicopter as it approached to land at the detachment at R.A.F. Chivenor, North Devon. Other detachments of 22 Squadron are located at Valley, Anglesey, and Thorney Island, Hampshire..<... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs