LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bonnie Dundee
On the 25th January the barque Bonnie Dundee, of Dun- dee, laden with coal, got on shore on the Newcome Sand, during a fresh gale with squalls from W.S.W. The Pakefield life- boat went off to her assistance, and on the vessel rilling and...
An Aeroplane (123)
AUGUST 19TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE. An R.A.F. aeroplane had been reported down in the sea in the estuary of the River Dee, but nothing was found. - Rewards : New Brighton, £9 5s.; Hoylake, £17 10s..
The Life-Boat Service In 1937
DURING 1937 the Institution gave rewards for the rescue from shipwreck round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland of 524 lives. It is the largest number rescued for nine years. Of those lives 439 were rescued by life- boats and 85 by...
Category: Articles
Cover Picture
COVER PICTURE by Dowland Studios Lifeboat weather... A shaft of sunlight highlights the new Arun The Queen Mother during trials on a stormy day in January 1989. The lifeboat is to be stationed atThurso, and was due to sail there in March... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Pantomime and a "Raffel"
THIS story of a gift of twenty-five shillings cannot be better told than in the letter which came with it: "Dear Secretary of the Life-boat Organisation, "I enclose a £l 5s. p.o. for the life- boat. The wray in...
Category: Donations
The S.S. Deerwood
The Bomber, Yorkshire.—At about 4.50 P.M on the 12th February, 1938, information was received through the Mablethorpe coastguard and the Spurn Point Royal Naval Shore Signal Station that a vessel was drifting on to the Haile Sands. She was...
Major, of Lyne
The schooner Major, of Lynn, ran aground at Holme on the morning of the 30th September. ^The Life-boat, Licensed Victualler, was at once despatched to the distressed vessel, and was, fortunately, the means of rescuing the crew, consisting of...
Matthew Drury Handing Over a Cheque for £500 on Behalf of Pupils of Melbourn Village College to Pat Elbourn Honorary Secretary of Royston and District Branch And
Matthew Drury handing over a cheque for £500 on behalf of pupils of Melbourn Village College to Pat Elbourn, honorary secretary of Royston and District branch, and Brian Fitch, assistant district organising secretary... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Morse Controls Ltd
GEAR SELECTOR VALVE Torbay Lifeboat 'Princess Alexandra of Kent' showing use of MD24 control with GARDNER LW engine and DC gearbox hydraulically actuated GOVENOR CONTROL 'It's simplicity itself (AN ASSOCIATE COMPANY OF MORSE...
Category: Advertisement
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Carried out to sea IN THE EARLY HOURS of Thursday August 14, 1980, a 999 call to Great Yarmouth Coastguard reported a woman calling for help from the river near the North Pier opposite the Coastguard lookout. Great Yarmouth and Gorleston...