LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (47)
APRIL 23RD. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At 6.41 A.M. a message was received from the St. Agnes coastguard that a Hurricane aeroplane had crashed into the sea one and a half miles N.E. by N. from Portreath, and at 7.38 A.M. the...
An Aeroplane (15)
MAY 30TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At 7.43 P.M. the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed approximately E.N.E. from Frinton battery, close inshore, and at 8.10 P.M. the motor life-boat E.M.E.D. was launched. A high westerly...
An Aeroplane (28)
AUGUST 11TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 5.45 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that an aeroplane was down half a mile from the coastguard station, and that the crew had baled out. She was a Halifax.
Twenty-five minutes...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.—Very heavy '.
seas accompanied a whole S.W. gale on the 15th March, and soon after daylight signals were observed from two vessels in the roads. The steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland was...
Category: Services
September
Launches 59. Lives rescued 46.
SEPTEMBER 3RD.- WEYMOUTH, DORSET. At 7.50 P.M. information was received from the naval authorities at Portland, through the coastguard, that three trawlers or drifters were ashore between St....
Category: Services
An Aeroplane (6)
FEBRUARY 17TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE.
At 2.44 in the afternoon life-boatmen on the promenade saw an aeroplane crash west-north-west of the coastguard station, about a mile off shore. The crash was also seen and...
Letters
Beeching's medal At the Great Exhibition of 1851, one James Beeching was awarded the prize bronze medal for a self righting lifeboat.
It is thought this boat was the best if not the first self righting lifeboat to be...
Category: Correspondence
Ceremonies
When Her Majesty The Queen, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, named a new lifeboat at Ramsgate on Friday 16 July, it was an historic occasion in more ways than one. This was the first time that a lifeboat was named in honour of a...
Category: Inaugurations
An Italian Barque
KINGSDOWNE.—During a strong S.W.
breeze and hazy weather on the 29th December, signals of distress were shown from a vessel ashore on the Goodwin sands. The Kingsdowne Life-boat proceeded to her, and' found she was an...
(Below) An Atlantic 21
(below) An Atlantic 21 lifeboat airborne in trials at the Shingle Bank off the Isle of Wight. The Atlantic 21 has enough speed, up to 30 knots, to run clear of unstable seas in shallow water or steer round breaking crests when going to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs