LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Phaedra
30-mile tow to safety for yacht adrift among rigs The rescue of two people from a yacht kept Cromer's Tyne class lifeboat at sea for 12 hours in winds of up to Force 9 on 28 September 1988. More than nine hours were spent towing the...
The Sailing Boat Lulu
Margate, Kent.—The reserve motor life-boat J. B. Proudfoot. on temporary duty at this station, was .launched at 8.20 A.M. on the 4th July as the coastguard had reported that a small sailing boat, with her sails blown away, was flying a...
Looking Back By Lt Commander Harold H Harvey Vrd Rnr
WHEN I TOOK my leave of the lifeboat service on December 31, 1973, it was after 21J years service as divisional inspector and superintendent of the Depot. At the age of 32 years I was serving as a lieutenant on the teaching staff of the...
Category: Articles
Crown of Germany
A large four- masted barque, named the Crown of Germany, whilst bound from Portland to Limerick with a cargo of wheat, came into Ballyheigue Bay, in mistake for the mouth of the Shannon, on the morning of the 10th July, during a S.W. gale...
Great Yarmouth Flag Day Last Summer Achieved a Record of Over £3000 Paul Daniels Star of 'summer Magic' at the Britannia Pier Helped Sell Souvenirs Nonstop for Two Hours Bringing the Sale
Great Yarmouth flag day last summer achieved a record of over £3,000. Paul Daniels, star of 'Summer Magic', at the Britannia Pier, helped sell souvenirs nonstop for two hours, bringing the sale for the day to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wreck of The Mumbles Life-Boat. The Whole Crew Lost
AT twelve minutes to six on the evening of the 23rd of April, 1947, the life-boat station at The Mumbles, Glamorganshire, received a message from the coastguard that Burnham Radio had picked up a call from the British steamship Samtampa,...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
ALDBOROOUGH, SUFFOLK.—At 7.30 AM.
on the 6th December, 1883, a sudden gale from the N.I. sprang up accompanied by a very rough sea. The fleet of fishing boats was out, and two of the boats were unable to cross the shoals....
Category: Services
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1873-4
IN presenting to Parliament the Wreck Register and Chart for the year 1873—4, the BOARD OF TRADE observe that it has been found advisable to make up its tables from the 1st July to the 30th June, instead of from the 1st January to the 31st...
Category: Articles
Letters
Boxed clever Gloucester's Flag Day is always held early in the year, when the weather can be guaranteed to be inclement. This year's collecting went on during a blizzard of snow! Determined to keep the chill wind from my feet and...
Category: Correspondence
United States Life-Saving Service
THE number of stations in the United States Life-Saving Service at the close of the year ended the 30th June, 1907, was 278, the same as that on the correspond- ing date in the previous year. Of this number, which was subdivided into thir-...
Category: Articles