LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Cabin Cuiser Ruth
Exmouth, Devon.—At 4.18 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a boat was burning a white light about three miles south-east of Orcombe Point. At 4.39 the life-boat Maria Noble was launched. There was a...
Peep Into The Past
Peep into the past Fascinating excerpts from the Lifeboat archives … 100 years ago The May 1907 Journal reported on experiments to improve life-belts and the early days of a new era in lifeboat crew kit: ‘The life-belt produced by the...
Category: Articles
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Coastal Spring
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The Gorton Lightvessel
DOCTOR TO LIGHTVESSEL Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 1.55 p.m. on 3ist January, 1965, the superintendent of Trinity House asked the honorary secretary for the use of the life-boat to take a sick man off of the Gorton Lightvessel....
The Coningbeg Lightvessel
Kilmore, Co. Wexford - At 7.10 p.m. on I5th June, 1967, it was learned that the mother of one of the crew members of the Coningbeg lightvessel was dangerously ill. The life-boat Cecil Paine was launched at 7.30 in a light variable breeze and...
The Life-Boats and the War. The King's Appreciation of the Institution's Work
NOTE.—The Editor will be grateful to Hon. Secretaries, and other subscribers, for any really good photographs of wrecks, or Life-boats on service or exercise, for publication in the JOURNAL.
The Life-boats and the War.<...
Category: Correspondence
The Danish Brigantine Andreas
BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.—The Danish brigantine Andreas, on her passage from Dunkirk to the Tyne, in ballast, ran ashore on Roker Rocks, North Blyth, during thick weather, at 5 o'clock on the morning of the 15th December. . The No. 2...
The Bar Light-vessel
LANDING AN INJURED MAN IN A ROUGH SEA New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 8.45 in the morning of the 15th of November, 1947, the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board asked for the life-boat to land the mate of the Bar Light-vessel, who had been severely...
The R.N.L.I, In Pakistan
AS reported in the January issue of THE LIFEBOAT, the R.N.L.I., following an urgent appeal from the British Red Cross, sent staff and inshore rescue boats to aid victims of the flood disaster in East Pakistan. The cargo of inflatable boats...
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Swanage Dorset: (Left) Launch of J Reginald Corah After Her Naming the Duke of Kent Then Embarked to Make a Round of Swanage Bay Photograph By Courtesy of a G
Swanage, Dorset: (left) Launch of J. Reginald Corah after her naming. The Duke of Kent then embarked to make a round of Swanage Bay. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of A. G. L. Hardy.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs