LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
XLXIX. RYE.—The Mary Stanford, 34 feet by 7 feet 9 inches, 10 oars.
L. WINCHELSEA.—The Frances Harris, 33 feet by 8 feet 2 inches, 10 oars.
THESE two most interesting towns well deserve the descriptive...
Category: Articles
Father Neptune at Herne Bay
A fortnight's celebrations of the centenary of Herne Bay last August concluded with life-boat day. Father Neptune, impersonated by Captain J. Irvine H. Friend, M.C., J.P., the chairman of the Margate branch, arriving in the Margate motor... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations, and New Life-Boats
Southwold, Suffolk.—A new life-boat, 40 feet long, and similar, in other respects, to the one stationed at Scratby, described in the 15th Number of this Journal, has been placed at Southwold, in lieu of the life-boat placed there in 1852, on...
Category: Articles
A Brave Schoolgirl
A Holiday at Skipsea LAST summer a fifteen-year-old school- girl was holidaying at Skipsea, near Bridlington. Her home was at Baildon near Shipley, and she was staying with her parents at Sea Cabin Bungalow, Green Lane, which stood near the...
Category: Articles
A Small Open Boat
Walmer, Kent.—At 1 P.M. on the 29th July, 1939, the coastguard informed the life-boat station that the South Goodwin Lightvessel had reported a small open boat with a crew of two, drifting on to the Goodwin Sands.
A strong...
Past & Present
100 Years Ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, August, 1888 Issue.
Brighstone Grange and Brooke, Isle of Wight On the afternoon of the 9th March, the ship Sirenia, of Glasgow, bound from San Francisco for Dunkirk with a...
Category: Articles
The Danish Container Vessel Dragor Maersk
Injured crew DURING THE AFTERNOON of Friday OctOber 9, 1981, the 38,000 ton Danish container vessel Dragor Maersk, on passage from Hamburg to Port Said, told east coast radio stations that a crew member with a fractured hip needed to be...
Shoreline
IT is JUST A YEAR since I took over as membership secretary, and what an eventful year it has been. Apart from the pleasure of making many new friends among our members, it has been most encouraging to receive your numerous letters bringing...
Category: Articles
Paddy Moya
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 7.0 on the night of the 3rd of April, 1951, the Wyke Regis coastguard reported that a small vessel two miles east-south-east of Portland Bill was burning red flares.
At 7.15 the life-boat...
La Violette
The motor life- boat William and Clara Ryland was launched at 8.25 P.M. on the 19th March, as the coastguard had reported that a vessel was burning flares in West Bay, about five miles W.N.W. of Port- land Bill. A light south wind was...