LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Betty, Hilda II, and Premier
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — On the morning of the 18th of January, 1956, the weather worsened while the local fishing boats Betty, Hilda II, and Premier were still at sea, with three men in each boat. At 10.40 the life- boat E.C.J.R. was...
Peep o ' Day, of Wrexford
On the morning of the 21st April the services of this life-boat were again called into requisition. The lugger Peep o'Day, of Wexford, was totally wrecked on the north end of the Dogger Bank, during a strong breeze from the E.N.E. The...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
PALLING, NORFOLK.—About 1 A.M.
on the 9th March the schooner Vixen of Fowey was wrecked on the beach about two and a half miles to the north of Palling. She was laden with burnt ore and was bound from London to the Tyne....
Category: Services
The Cabin-Cruiser Diana II
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 3.15 in the early morning of the 18th of August, 1952, the Wyke Regis coastguard tele- phoned that a boat was burning red flares off Sandsfoot Castle, Portland, and that the naval authorities were sending a tug. At 3.30...
An R.A.F. Mosquito Aeroplane
FEBRUARY 14TH. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE.
At 11.9 in the morning the Rhyl coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea about a mile north of the coastguard look-out. The weather was fine, with only a light wind and...
2007: The Experimental FCB2 Is Unveiled – The Future Face Of Carriage-Launched All-Weather Lifeboats?
2007: the experimental FcB2 is unveiled – the future face of carriage-launched all-weather lifeboats? Photo: Tony Roddam. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Duchess Is Pictured Above Unveiling A Bronze Bust Of Whitby’s Most Famous Lifeboatman Henry Freeman
The Duchess of Kent opened the new lifeboat station at Whitby on 7 September. She also named the station’s latest D class inshore lifeboat OEM Stone III. Photo: RNLI/Tony Roddam. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (8)
Margate, Kent, and Southend-on- Sea, Essex.—9th September, 1939.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea off Leysdown. The Margate life-boat was launched just after eleven at night in a thick fog and reached Leysdown...
An Aeroplane (58)
JULY 1ST. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE, AND FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
An aeroplane had been reporteddown in the sea, but the Buckie life-boat reached the position to find that an R.A.F. rescue launch had picked up the body of an...
An Aeroplane (11)
JULY 13TH. - MARGATE, KENT. An aeroplane was reported as having come down in the sea a few miles out, but though the life-boat searched over a wide area she could find nothing.-Rewards, £6 4s..