LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ada
ST. MARY'S, SCILLY ISLANDS.—The Life-boat Henry Dundaa put off at about 11 A.M. on the 1st February, and for some hours remained by the ketch Ada, of Gloucester, which had anchored in a bad position in St.
Mary's...
Percy and Elizabeth Blunden
Percy and Elizabeth Blunden opened their garden to the public at Keepers Cottage, Lindfield, West Sussex, last July. It was a beautiful day and their magnificent garden was looking its best for the 597 people who came to enjoy it and the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Jenny III, Happening
ENGINE TROUBLE It was learned on 7th August, 1971, that the Dutch Barge Jenny III, with a crew of four, had been standing by the East Goodwin lightvessel during the night with engine trouble. Arrangements to tow the barge were made with a...
July
Launches 35 Lives rescued 8 JULY 8TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 7.46 in the morning the Deal coastguard reported that a four-engined bombing aeroplane, belonging to the R.A.F., had crashed in the sea about two and three-quarter miles east of the...
Category: Services
the Brothers' Pride, Comet, Harriet Miller and Gem
ST. ANDREW'S.—Four fishing-boats, the Brothers' Pride, Comet, Harriet Miller and Gem, belonging to St. Andrew's, were returning from haddock-fishing on the evening of the 16th February when they were overtaken by a gale of wind...
The Life-Boat Work
THE following account of a shipwreck on our coast, and a gallant rescue by a Life-boat, has been taken from a new work,' Under one Hoof/ * by Mr. JAMBS PAYN, the well-known author, whose genius is determined to leave some marks on our...
Category: Articles
Storm Warnings
[THE following paper on " Storm Warnings" is one of the latest written by the late-lamented Admiral FitzRoY; and it is to us a melancholy satisfaction to publish it in these columns, where he so often gave the results of his great...
Category: Articles
Concurrent and Waterlily
FORMBY.—Two vessels being sighted in a very dangerous position on the Great Burbo Bank, having run aground in a fog, on the 21st March, the Life-boat John and Henrietta was launched at 8.15 A.M., and after a long pull reached the vessels and...
Quest and Dennis
AUGUST 11TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At about 9.30 in the morning a message was sent to the coxswain that the weather was very bad and that several fishing cobles were out. He went to the station and found that most of the fishing boats...
Kinnaird Head and Araby
DECEMBER 27TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 3 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a ship was sinking near the boom defence, and at 3.25 P.M. the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3) was launched. A light...