LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Frederik and Steam Trawler Ben Aden
Sunderland, Co. Durham.—At 2.30 P.M. on the 8th August, 1938, information was received that a ship was ashore on Whitburn Steel. Later it was reported that a trawler also was ashore. The sea was smooth, with a light northerly breeze. It was...
An Aircraft
Peel, Isle of Man.—29th May, 1939.
A competitor in the Manx Air Races had crashed into the sea, but he was picked up by a fishing boat.—Rewards, £7 13s..
Twenty-Five Years of Life-Boat Work. By Captain Basil Hall, R.N. Late Inspector of Life-Boats
IT was in February, 1895, that I first entered " the House of the Institution " in order to submit my name as a candidate for the vacancy of District Inspector of Life-boats, caused by a decision of the Committee of Manage- ment to...
Category: Articles
The Bravest Deeds of 1951
THE Maud Smith reward, in memory of John, Seventh Earl of Hardwicke, for the bravest act of life-saving of the year by a life-boatman was awarded to Alfred R. Wilson, of Margate, for going on board the yacht Girlanda in the darkness of the...
Category: Awards
Members of the Spalding Sub-Aqua Club Took Part In An Underwater Sponsored 'Fin' Along the 2 Lh Mile Coronation Channel—A Flood Relief Channel In Spalding the 'Fin' Was Swum In Darkness St
Members of the Spalding Sub-Aqua Club took part in an underwater sponsored 'fin' along the 2 lh mile Coronation Channel—a flood relief channel in Spalding. The 'fin' was swum in darkness, starting at 7pm, and over £100... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Fisheries Exhibition
IT would probably savour of exaggeration to assert that this Exhibition is entitled to the first place in the long roll of similar undertakings, of which the Exhibition of 1851 was the grand beginning; but history will give it a high place...
Category: Articles
The Cruisada
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—On the evening of the 7th of April a small vessel was observed in the Wallet Channel, S.E. of Clacton Pier, during a strong S.W. wind and a very rough sea. With the aid of a powerful glass, it was seen that she wasdisabled,...
Escape, of Belfast
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—During the afternoon of the 8th August, the sailing yacht Escape, of Belfast, with two men on board, left Portrush for her home port. There was very little wind and she began to drift towards the dangerous Skirk rocks....
Mab
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 3.40 on the morning of the 6th of June, 1955, the life-boat shore attendant reported that a vessel was burning flares on the south side of the harbour. At 3.55 the life-boat A.E.D. put out. The sea was rough, there...
Saida
Exmouth, Devon. — At 12.53 early on the morning of the 18th of August, 1955, the coast-guard rang up to say that red flares had been seen on the seaward side of Pole Sands. At 1.9 the life-boat Maria Noble was launched. There was a ground...