LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lady Jane
HAVING HEARD from Aberdovey Coastguard at 1820 on August 10, 1974, that a member of the public had reported seeing someone falling out of a motor cabin cruiser crossing [Dovey Bar to seaward, Aberdovey honorary secretary immediately...
Lady Florence
Ramsgate, Kent. At 6.41 on the evening of the 7th of November, 1960, the watchman on the east pier told the honorary secretary that a boat had been seen in Pegwell Bay flashing a lamp and apparently needing help. There was a light westerly...
Lady Jean
SAFELY ANCHORED At 5.15 p.m. on I3th September, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that a yacht appeared to be drifting in rough seas close by Walton pier and that further investigation was being made. At 6.10 the message was confirmed...
Fast Lady
Fast first for Brighton's new Atlantic 21 Brighton - South East Division Brighton's new Atlantic 21 Graham Hillier and Tony Cater found herself on service very promptly after arriving at the station on 21 July.
The...
Lady Sophia
DECEMBER 9TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
About eight at night some of the life-boatmen saw a ship signal SOS by morse and fire a rocket, and at the same time the coastguard reported a vessel in distress about six miles...
A Hundred Years Ago
Extract from The Life-boat dated the 1st of October, 1858 Meetings of the Committee Thursday, 1st July, 1858. Thomas Chapman Esq., V.P., F.R.S., in the Chair.
The Committee voted their thanks to the London, Brighton and...
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A Hundred Years Ago
An extract from The Life-boat, or Journal of the National Shipwreck Institution, 1853.
THE Committee regret to have to state that the frequency of shipwrecks on the coasts of the United Kingdom, during the past twelve...
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A Hundred Years Ago
ON January 5th, 1847, Lieut.-Col. Sir William Hillary, Bt., the founder of the Life-boat Service, died in the Isle of Man at the age of seventy-eight. He was not only the founder of the service, but one of the greatest of its life-boatmen,...
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Ann Pritchard
LLANDDULAS. — On the 19th January, during a S.W. gale, the smack Ann Pritchard, of Carnarvon, was observed with a signal of distress flying, 3 miles from this station. The Life-boat Henry Nixson, No. 2, was accordingly launched, and after an...
Ann Elizabeth
WHITBY.—On the 23rd February, when blowing hard from N.N.E., while several fishing-cobles were running into the harbour, one, the Ann Elizabeth, was caught by a cross sea and capsized. The No. 1 Life-boat, Robert Whitworth, was...