LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Chong Peng
Combined Operation THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of Appledore, North Devon, was informed at 3.26 a.m., on Wednesday, September 19, 1973, that a yacht was in distress 28 miles to the west of the lifeboat station.
The...
Poster Stamps of the Life-Boat Service
ON page 100 there is reproduced a set of nine poster stamps, which repre- sents in brief pictorial form the history Of the Life-boat Service of Great Britain. These stamps are not for use on letters through the post but as a Commemorative...
Category: Advertisement
To Come Last In a Race and Still Earn £45724 for the Lifeboats
To come last in a race and still earn £457.24 for the lifeboats cannot be bad. This entrv in a charitv pram race held between 17 Hampsiead pub teams was dressed up to look (something) like a Waveney class lifeboat and although it came... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane and Dinghy
FEBRUARY 9TH. - KILLYBEGS, CO. DONEGAL. At 4.45 in the afternoon the military look-out post at Mullaghmore telephoned that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea one mile from the post, and that the airmen were taking to their dinghy. A...
September
Launches 31 Lives rescued 13 SEPTEMBER 1ST. -
COURTMACSHERRY, CO. CORK. At 10.20 at night a fisherman returned from trawling and reported that a lobster boat appeared to be in distress near How Strand, to the east of...
Category: Services
An Aeroplane
Troon, and Girvan, Ayrshire.—14th January, 1938. An aeroplane was missing, but it had come down on land near Largs. The owners made a donation to the Institution.—Rewards : Troon, £15 9s.; Girvan, £13 2s. 6d..
An Aeroplane
JANUARY 8TH - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the pilot was picked up by another vessel. - Rewards, £17 19s.
Life-Boat Queen of Ashby-de-la-Zouche, Miss Carol Hunt, and Her Attendants at the Gala Day Organized By the Local Branch
Life-boat Queen of Ashby-de-la-Zouche, Miss Carol Hunt, and her attendants at the gala day organized by the local branch. The coach is 150 years old. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Services In 1900
Lives saved.
Ada Gane, ketch, of Harwich— stood by vessel.
Albion, schooner, of Runcorn— assisted to save vessel and...... 4 Alnvrick, schooner, of Beaumaris —assisted to save vessel.
Category: Services
Day Star (1)
SOUTHWOLD AND DUNWICH, Onthemorningofthe27thDecember,1886, the schooner Day Star, of and for Ipswich, from Seaham, with coal, was driven on the shoal at Thorpeness, with both anchors down, and became a total wreck during a heavy gale of wind...