LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Guernsey Coast
MOTOR VESSEL REFLOATED Ramsgate, Kent.—At about 7.20 in the morning of the 27th of October, 1947, the coastguard reported that the motor vessel Guernsey Coast, of London, was ashore five miles north-east of North Foreland with her steering...
Collapse of An Oil Rig
ON Monday, 2yth December, 1965—Boxing Day—a great many people were appalled on hearing the news of a disaster which had overtaken the oil rig Sea Gem which collapsed and sank in the North Sea. The oil rig, which belonged to the British...
Category: Services
Spectators Getting a Thrill at Port Isaac, Cornwall, When As Part of a Water Safety Demonstration the Local Irb Showed What It Could Do In a Rocky Situation.
Spectators getting a thrill at Port Isaac, Cornwall, when as part of a water safety demonstration the local IRB showed what it could do in a rocky situation.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the April, May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches. 110. Lives rescued 113.
April Meeting.
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wezford On the evening of the 5th February the s.s. Elsie Annie, of Wexford, ran aground on the North Dogger bank, N.W. of...
Category: Services
People and Places
On Station The following lifeboats have taken up station and relief fleet duties: ALL-WEATHER Workington - Tyne 47-028 (ON 1141) Sir John Fisher on 8 June 1992.
Peel -Mersey 12-22 (ON 1181) Ruby Clery on 10 June...
Category: Articles
German History
Those interested in life-boats who have a knowledge of German will find a wealth* of fascinating information in the centenary publication Seenot Opfer Siege produced for the German life-boat society to celebrate a hundred years of service...
Category: Articles
Book Corner
0 Rage of Sand: The Story of the Men who Built their Own Seaside Town (Ernest Benn, £2.25) is by Gabriel Harrison, a member of the Committee of Management of the R.N.L.I., and is a very readable account of the growth of St.
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Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
Glenville West
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Category: Advertisement
February
FEBRUARY Launches 38 Lives rescued 58 FEBRUARY 3RD. - SELSEY, SUSSEX.
The life-boat coxswain and others were at the life-boat station when, at 3.40 in the afternoon, they saw a Typhoon aeroplane, flying low, crash in the...
Category: Services