LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gifts from Crews
On the 17th May, 1928, the Ramsgate Motor Life-boat saved the schooner Isabella, of Barrow, which was in distress in a moderate northerly gale, and rescued her crew of four men. Out of the salvage money received, the Life-boat Crew have made...
Category: Donations
January 29 1976: British Airways Helicopter Lifts Off Crew of 17 from Trawler Ben Gulvain When With Engine Failure She Had Run Aground Near Aberdeen In Gale Force Winds
January 29, 1976: British Airways helicopter lifts off crew of 17 from trawler Ben Gulvain when, with engine failure, she had run aground near Aberdeen in gale force winds.
photograph by courtesy of Miss I. M.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar
SEPTEMBER 7th, 1938, will be the hundredth anniversary of the rescue by Grace Darling and her father William Darling, of the Longstone Lighthouse, Northumberland, of the nine survivors of the Dundee steamer Forfarshire. The Institution has...
Category: Advertisement
An Ex-R.A.F. Launch
Torbay, Devon. At 2.10 on the morn- ing of the 20th of March,1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a 30-feet ex R.A.F. launch with two men on board was overdue on a passage from Portland to Torquay and that he had...
An Aeroplane (138)
SEPTEMBER 11TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £16 15s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (45)
DECEMBER 22ND. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY. An aeroplane had crashed in flames, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £8 10s..
An Aeroplane (8)
APRIL 5TH. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. An aeroplane had fallen into the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £11 8s.
The Naval Reserve, As It Ought to Be, and As It Is
" WHAT is the Naval Reserve?" This is a question which was very frequently asked during the early part of the month of May of the present year; and, certainly, until the daily papers undertook the task of en- lightenment, the...
Category: Articles
(Top) the relief Tyne class lifeboat Owen and Ann Aisher dominates the area around the RNLI stand.
(Top) The relief Tyne class lifeboat Owen and Ann Aisher dominates the area around the RNLI stand. The wooden slipway and 'boathouse' can be seen in the background. - View image in PDF
Photo Mike Anker, Take 2. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (1)
JANUARY 6TH - 7TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE, AND PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE. During the evening information was received from the coastguard that a British aeroplane had come down in the sea about six miles south-west of Llanbedrog. A light...