LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
WHITBURN.—The barque Canada Belle, of Whitby, struck on the Whitburn Steel rocks during a gale of wind at S.S.W. on the night of the 23rd Nov., 1872. Fortu- nately her signals of distress were ob- served, and the Thomas Wilson Life-boat,...
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Angler in the water WHEN, on the evening of Friday November 30, 1984, Mr Michael Morris, honorary secretary of Newquay (Cornwall)lifeboat station, was informed that a sea angler had fallen off the rocks at the western end of Fistral Beach,...
Lifeboat Services
South East Division Trawler saved in violent storm THROUGHOUT THURSDAY DECEMBER 26, 1985, Boxing Day, the weather on the east Kent coast had been rapidly deteriorating; by late afternoon winds from the north east were reaching strong gale...
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MARCH 8TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE. A flare had been reported but nothing was found. - Rewards, £34 3s..
The R.N.L.I Looks Ahead
For the first time in its history the annual meeting of the Royal National Life-boat Institution was held at the Royal Festival Hall, London, when the Chairman, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., referred to the decisions...
Category: Meetings
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
Portquin Bay Cornwall December 15 1979: Padstow Lifeboat the 48Ft 6In Oakley James and Catherine Macfarlane Stands By the Greek Freighter Skopelos Sky In An Onshore Storm Gusting to H
Portquin Bav, Cornwall, December 15, 1979: Padstow lifeboat, the 48ft 6in Oakley James and Catherine Macfarlane stands by the Greek freighter Skopelos Sky in an onshore storm gusting to hurricane force. photograph by courtesy of John... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
SUNSHINE greeted lifeboat people from all parts of the country who began to gather on South Bank, by the River Thames, early on Tuesday May 11 for what was to be a most moving and memorable day.
It was a day which...
Category: Awards
The Lifeboat Service - Past and Present
100 Years Ago The following item was first published in THE LIFEBOAT of August, 1886.
A NIGHT ON THE GOODWIN SANDS.
ON the 20th of April last a grievous disaster occurred on the Goodwin Sands, which...
Category: Articles
Joanna
YACHT ESCORTED IN ROUGH SEA Selsey, Sussex. At 10,37 on the morning of the 21st July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht, later identified as the Joanna of Shoreham, was in difficulties two to three miles...